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aspAc horities of Brooklyn and New York to use cidence of these men being in political aocord as if enterprises designed to contribute to the CURRENT EVENTS. CONEY ISLAND. and brother, wore among tho visitors at the Brighton. There also woro Edmond Connolly and family. Mr.

Connolly was a lieutenant under Colonel Corcoran at tho battle of Bull Bun, was taken prisoner with that gallant officer, and was detained a long Umo at tho fionth. He was afterward a member of tha State Assembly from tho City of New York. He has been a long Umo extensively engaged in the manufacture nd flow at Vandervoer's, bis hotel being full from noon to night. Cablo'g, however, appeared to receive the lion's share of the patronage, ceaseless activity prevailing in almost every part of his well 'conducted place. On the plazo in front of the hotel, Arbnckle had an appreciative orowd of listeners.

The programmes of the afternoon and ovening were unusually well seleotod documents and wore interpreted in excellent style. Mr." Arbnckle was at his best in the evening, his solos being heartily applauded. There waa considerable bathing done at this seotlon of the beach yesterday, notwithstanding the fact that tha weather was scarcely warm and less feverish manner than the morchafct and clerk who listen to him? Simply because his brain and nervous system are better nourished by rest and change of scene. The clerk and the sexton are as well 'endowed for happiness and usefulness' as the parson; but they get no holidays and are therefore constantly deteriorating. Fifty sextons go crazy to one parson, for the reason that the sexton asks in vain, "When will my labors have an end," while, the parson tells his wife, "Never "mind, my dear, we are going to Europe for "three months in the Summer." Some of the ministers bring back fresh ideas and' an Invigorated style after the holidays.

REV. DR. FOSS. Tills a Bad World and a Pleasant World. yei 8ermon Yesterday Morning in Lafayette ATcnue Presbyterian Church by tho President of the Weileyan University.

Tho Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, D. President of tbe Wesloyan University, preached In the Laayefe avenuo Presbyterian Church yesterday mornimr. Thara was a full attendance.

The text was John xvii 15 "I pray not that Thou wonldst take them out of tho world, but that Thou wouldst keep thorn from tbe evil." TBI BSRHOS. Almost cvorybody, the preacher sold, looted in the lily paper first thing for the marrhmom miJ deaths. II were interested in them and anxlout vw were married and who dead. The fact iuucNt.ii twofotdnesa its nde oi happinee and iu sldo of aor row. Many things made it a fearful thing to live.

Sometimes the righteous wos ready to soy, Why both God forgotten me?" Consequently it was not a rain thing to consider such prayer as that in tha text. Who said it, and under what conditions was it said? It was the Rodeomor of men, praying for us and all His people down to the end of time. The prayer waa offered of ter Hlo voledlctory address to His disciples, just before His death Jesus ayed I ask not that thou wouldat take thoni nut or world." Tho actual conclusion wn tlntt no. rn a good place to lire in. Looking at It In ons light, it was an alarming and startling thing to livo Trial and distress ond dlaonrtolnrmont sn.i to live, lheexposnre to the sufforing wrought by disobedience, tho tremendous moral risks run made it awful to live.

Tho physical diseases which awaited uo rocking, distorting, destroying our fnano mode it awful to live. The dreadful bodlrv uaiua thit illtmi whom we best loved, laying strong men low and cutting off the young in their bloom, niado it awful to live Tho wreck aud ruin and mental desolation which discsss brought on tho strong and the stirring In a moment, made it awful to livo. Wo were honnv wlinn Ji parts wero iu harmony, but here our passiono were against our reason, our impulses against our niscinnco. our desires ogoin.t our interest, and thus life was often made a wreck instead of compart nd comely thing. However honest mon might be, they wero open Vi slander aud calumny.

However sagacious wo might have shown wo might bo WRECKED IS THE BTOnMS OP PANIO. Our judgment could uot novo us from ruin. Tho garden of home, that ought to grow only tho aweetnat flowers, bo overrun with weeds aud noxious plants and tho trail of the aerpunt bo over it oil It might be the seat of unrequited or blightod love. Thn sacred bonds of morrlnn or matornity and oil tho filial relations might bo burst asunder and destrojed by ain. The beloved child whom wo had dandled on tho kneo might turn against us and we mWht have to say "How sharper than sorpent's tooth it is to havo tliankieas child." Then tro wore daily and hourly axpomd to sin and all IU dreadful esaallnionts.

Personal lurjjurtty, moral riaka, bo.iet us. abominable, and only abominable beeatlao opposed to OoJ'h rlgbteouB rulo, OKsailod ua on all hamli and in all foruii. Sin had been the curso since tfod (lie world, ond it had sent Itx virus of depravity down through oil tho agrs to thi last bouI hiru, so that nothing it tho grace of G.xl could save men from moral wreck here and eternal ruin hereafter. Tb'jn thero waa tho continual oppoitlon of hoMt from within and cianiple from without, so tost virtuo had a fight all the timo to live iu us and around us aud by ua and In uplto of us. Tlie.w ouaidoratlons mada it on awful and solemn tblng to livo, Nevoi thelocB, after all, thla world wm a place to live in.

The jiuier lover of souls Hlnnolf said, when for tho best benediction on Hla frionda, "I pray not that Thou wilt take them out of tbo world." God saw that tliia woa a good place for Hii people to atay awbllo orter their convoralon, bo that they uitgbt bo completed in overy good word and work. One reason why Ohrir made thia prayer waa becttuso thia world waa healthful to virtue. Virtuo came from virtus, which meant literally, bravery, ond there waa no bravery without battle. It waa not the parade ground that ma le or proved a soldier. Virtue reqmrod Utt.

trial, development. Ood wished to be hureea of faith. Ho bod reworda to i5 1 tribute and crownn t.i place on fit brows. It was not pleasant to aee a aoldier lying on the field unless he waa acarred or rt attng from the purault of tho conquered foe. One of the lineat alghU wos TO 8EB THE CHRISTIAN CHASINO APOLLYON, or resting after a well fought field bofore going onco more into the fight.

In order to devolnp the gracei there inuat lo contest. This waa preparation for Heaven. Ail the evlla which befell ua here wont to prepare ua Mr tho next lifo. Gabriol had no claim to ba meek, for bo was not tried hku wo wore. Tho worid with lta Icabiom and profit and carpa and lovua, might take our oyea from tho croaa.

But when sorrow or trial etrcck us down, and our brint beloved wo torn from us, our empty anna wero reached out to the crtirifio ond our riven aotila cried out for God. That waa the aeutl inent of the beautiful hymn which hod entered into the liturgy of every modern church Nearer, my God, to Thee, Kcarer to Tliy, E'en though it bo a cross That ralrieth me. Still all my aoug shall bo, Nearvr, my (loil, to Tlieo, Nearer to Thee. Eiyry riant thinking youth found out that the restraint it homo were ueceasary to happiness. Later on in life he discovered that self restraint and tho restraints of social life and government wero indiapenaable to hia well beiiiR.

Ho with tho christian who found that divine restraints, however, painful ami mortifying to tho fleah, were ucodful to his Boul'a welfare. Happiness did not lie In lots, or houacs, or shlpa, or stocks, or warehouses, but in the aoti', and when that was disciplined and subjected to divine control, oil wos rint. Happiness was to Ret up nearer to God. Who ever nkvr an ox go bellowing an: tho rich Hurnm'ir herbage, "This gross ea not natiaty mo." But uo matter what man', wealth or poaitlon, hia ultimate cry wob, Yonitlea of vanities, all la vanity." The Buffering wc hod to undergo hers would enable ua tho hotter to appreciate heavenly hleasinna hereafter. All would not poaseai on cqnsj Hhare, but all would bo full according to their capacity oa created here.

Tho thief on tho cross could not be erpeoted to enjoy bo great a reward oa John Howard, tho philanthropist. Every ooul would Imi full, as somo aoula would be vory smoU ond others very big. All could loy up treasures in heavun aa the merchant laid up money in tho bsnk. "Our tight affliction," said the op oatln, "which is but for moment, worketh out for ua far more exceeding aud eternal weight of glory." This waa said with all tho force of the Greek language, the most perfect of oil lan guogea, tho language which God made on purpose for Jeatlb Ohri.it to apeak in and tho apostieo to write In. This subject ought to teach patienco, contentment and thankfulness.

DE.Y0M.VATf0.YALIS9I DIYIXELV ORDAINED. A Sermon by the iter. Clnrle cole man, of the East New York Baptist Church. During the past week tho various ministers of New Lota have boon planning motboJ of procedure tending to the supresaioa of the lirjuor traffic in that town. Tho Rev.

charloa Coleman, pastor of the First Baptist Church, a gontleman of liberal views, and one of the most popular preachers In tho town, haa been on of tho foremoat in tho work. Voaterday morning cs preached eormon on the advantages of unity among the churchos of different denominations to secure sbj object that would benefit oil. Ho said that be bod beet) working for five yeara to obtain thia unity of Christian work, and ho waa greatly pleased that It had lama so compliahcd. lie maintained that tho various denominations were divinely ordained. That like the as von colors which combined to make whits light the varioua ohurches wore working for the ono object to) glorify God.

Man naturally loved varloty. That (Jod also loved variety waa manifest in Hla works. Mo two faces were alike. No two stars In tho heavens wore sz actly the aamo. No two mon followed the same 11ns of thought.

Iieechor, Dr. Hall and Talmodge all were different typos of proacbors, yet each was doing grMott work for God. Men differed in religious views, and as thought that if a man believed he would batter bs satis fled by boing a Methodiat or a Presbyterian than ojlsp tlat, it would better for him to go to that chareb. odvined his congregation not to Judge other denoad natlona harshly, aa eocn woa doing ond hod done eiool lent work and many of tha teaching of othor churches fiubly studied by them. W.KF0HD SOCIAL CLUB.

This morning tho Eckford Social Club went Oriontal Grove on their annusl water exojralon. Ths boat left Jewell's Dock ot 10 o'clock. A largo numoer at excursloniste were on board. Ths oommlttees for ths day were Executive Committee A. n.

Penney, Chairman; J. Cogswell, Sacietory; David Brower, Treasurer: Joseph Goillord ond WtlUein E. Melody. Floor 3Ionagera Alox. W.

Mottison snd Wm. S. Dup yea, sasisted by William Young, Chas. (). Fleet.

H. S. Lomau, John Cook, William Wilaon, Charles SolboW! Benjamin T. Petty and William H. Lunday.

llocoption Committee Goorge Vi. Light, Chairman; John l)nvriju, it. J. GmtTnoy, SI. V.

Wood, G. MeyereL lt(viney Thuraby, Ifenrv Aiimon, H. Hedemon. Edward Ketcham, Joines Kuiguta, Joseph Helaer, Stephen A. Lee, fJanord Murroy, E.

H. Koy, cliria. Toves, John BiK jibee. J. W.

Downey, Aoron Von Name, Bob ertH. Dunham, John Phoian. W. E. Klchsrdson, John Lenz, William E.

Walters, John N. Guthrie, a Heybert. HI SINKSS NOTICES. SUNDAY EAGLE. ORDER YOUR OAKHIKB TO LKAVH TUK EAGLE ON 88s8 8888 sasa 8 3 fj UN NN If If NH rnr AA A A AAA A A AS WELL A8 ON THE OTHER DAYS OF TUB WERE.

CONTAINS ALL TUB PRICE THREE CENTSL Parties deoirin tbo fiuyrjxv F.aois left at tbatr ml denoe can e.nd their address to this effloe and It srill siven to the carrier who serves tbs Bag LA la thsic district. HEADQUARTERS ion TOXOPHILITES. Wo ore offering a lorg assortment of ARCHERY OOOD3. Received from tho boat Bno liati mokam. We also coll attention to ont LAWN TEHDIS GOODS.

In creot variety. HALL, NICOLL A GRAJfBERY, Successors to Schuyler, HartI? Orohoss. In ths Foncr Goods Deportment, 20 AND JOHM STREET. NEW TORg. THE SEASIDE LIBRARY.

Oat tnia weok. in eltsr. bold bandsezss typs: Tho Hodalen Bsrroi MoV John Thompson, Blockhead, loots Font no. A niri'a Romance. F.

W. Robinsoa lOa. IVnton'a Qaoat. Min M. B.

Brad jtOst, Tno Yeuow ftxaoK4vvuotio UOUIAS. by B. Mircon, by sirs. Forrester tiiaonie, by Alpboa DoadoS. Kko.

NO NEED TO GO TO NEW YORK, wn intra hair store, NO. 283 FULTON 8TRBBT. To reduce atock. in ore sacxifleini 3,009 Switch, On coods ot $3. to.

Hob? drgaanuj. bleaching or dyeing. THE REV. T. DEWITT TALMAQE'S LstUnol his travels in Earops will bo pabUthod In ton wesks the MEW YORK FAMILY STORY FKB.

BRiairroN beach fair grounds COSKY ISLAND. RAOES JULY m. and 30 RAUP.S UO.MMKNOR AT 3 Pot, Admliiiun ()rnd Stand I. Grand stand sua quarter stretch Sl.Vi. All ander cover.

Ractns wdl bo continued erors Tuesday. ThnrsdHf ana Sattutiai dorinoj tit ikuatw. every precaution, striotly enforce existing san itary regulations and see that these two great cities are kept more thoroughly cleaned. The condition of some parts of either city is nothing less than a standing invitation to Yel low Jacor any other of humanity's epidemic horrors. A Theatrical Showman Clone.

The death of Mr. Harry Palmer, of the theatrical firm of 'Jarrett Palmer, was announced in a cable dispatch received on Saturday night in Ne York. It caused little surprise among those who knew Mr. Palmer at all intimately, for he was known to have suffered from an' incurable malady, and his death was frequently predicted. Indeed, his recovery after eaoh fresh attack surprised his friends much more than' the announcement of his death.

Mr. Palmer had many friends and was popular in the profession. He was a gonial and companionable man, bright, original and entertaining in conversation, and personally will be regretted. Whether his decease is a blow to the best interests of the Amorican stage, however, is another question, which may be answered negatively as well as affirmatively. Some of our contemporaries have devoted no little space to obituary notioes of him, which, following the nil nisi bonum principle as regards the dead, have'omitted a great deal that was true.

An obituary, if it has any purpose at all, should be impartially truthful, and especially so in tho case of a public character like Mr. Palmer. If it seeks to sketch in a few lines the life and achieve ments of a man, it can scarcely afford to overlook the most conspicuous features of his ca reer, and still less the influence Hint he ex erted. Mr. Harry Palmer's career was a brilliant one his sagacity as a manager was extraordinary his inventiveness and faculty of enlist ing publio attention by advertising trjeks were remarkable, and his success in bringing his ventures out profitably was also noteworthy.

All his best gifts as a manager, however, were perverted, and? his influence upon the drama was in a large measure, if not altogether, bad and detestable He did not possess a particle of truo dramatic feoling, knew nothing of the principles of the drama as an art, nothing of its literature. He was simply a showman, and his tulents for tho show business served to lower the' tone of the stage to that of the circus and to convert the theatre into something a great deal worse. Mr. Palmer started out in life as a compositor, and was first introduced into theatrical life by means of a libretto in which he had an interest. The glare of the stage dazzled and fascinated him.

He abandoned his trade and was soon identified with the stage. Ho became a small manager in Phila delphia, and removed to New York, where ho made his first fortune and reputation by bringing out tho "Black Crook" at Niblo's Garden in 1806. This was a novelty on the American stage. It was not a drama, but a spectacle. The spectacle consisted principally in a public exhibition of female nudity.

for the women employed iu the representation wore required to strip themselves of all tho clothing tho police did not actually insist upon their rotaimng. That which had been a more or loss perfect art became simply a lascivious exhibition, and the remonstrances of the press and pulpit only advertised it the more. The public be came hardened to the indeconoy of the show young men who haa before this retained a sufficiently strong sense of deconcy to avoid publio violations of it, put away all scruples. woinauhooa was divested or its modesty in their minds, and publio morality was corrupted. Of tho girls and women who were thus publicly exposed in a condition which in tho street would have insured their arrest, it is not necessary to speak.

That private mor ality was consistent with this public immodesty is, of course, not thinkable. Tho "Black Crook" was a public calamity. It made large fortune for the management, however, who saw that they had the real cue. Henceforward everything thoy touched was in the spectacular line. Even Shakspeare's plays could not bo brought out unaccompanied by spectacular effects.

Booth's Theatre, under the management of Messrs. Jarrett Palmer, was temple of claptrap and tinsel, and a large mass of the publio actually began to believe that a drama could not be presented without coryphees and red fire and all the preposterous apparatus of a spectacle. A community grown familiar with the indecency of physical display was admirably prepared for the enjoyment of all the nastiness of the French drama, and the production of the "Black Crook" was becoming prelude to "Madeline Morel." The stage had lost its prestige. It had become an institution for the stimulation of the lowest human appetites, aud to Mr. Palmer's talents, perverted, must be attributed the demoralization which not even the stoutest defenders of the drama can ignore or justify.

This is not a pleasant summary of a man's life aud achievements, but to shrink from the truth because it is unpalatable would bo a breach of duty. That Mr. Palmer was cordial and generous and personally agreeable, we cheerfully agree. That he made the world better than he found it, or even tried to, is not true. He made a fortune by degrading society and fouling one of the channels of public improvement.

To omit from a record of a public man's life consideration of the evil he has done, is to encourage others in doing the same thing. If his misdeeds are not written on his tombstone, they ought at least to be recalled, sadly, but unhesitatingly, in his obituary. The Prophets on Their Travels. Mr. Beecher preached his last sermons yesterday, having lingered longer than usual, until ho resombled, metaphorically, "the last rose "of Summer, left blooming alone." Most of our Brooklyn ministers had left some weeks ago.

Dr. Ouyler is at Saratoga. Drs. Tol mago and Porter are in Europe. Dr.

Putnam, in Massachusetts, where for some years he has spent his holidays. Dr. Storrs is also in the New England States. Dr. Schenck has not closed his church, but spends the week at Manhattan Beach.

When his proposed chapel built at Coney Island he will offioiate therein personally during the Summer months, while his curates will still continue the full services the parish ohurch of St. Ann's on the Heights. Bishop Littlejohn divides his time in various, places of his large diocese. Dr. Scudder's church is closed.

The plan by which Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, in London, was to fill Mr. Beeoher's pulpit during the latter part of tho Summer has, we believe, fallen through, owing to the other pressing engagements of the author of "Ecce Deus." Dr. Wild, of Elm place, is carrying on his prophetio studies somewhere in the "rural districts." Mr. Emory Haynes, of the Washington avenue Baptist Church, is at the White Mountains.

Dr. Free man, of the Tompkins avenue Congregational Church, is in Europe. We do not recall the precise retreat of Dr. Hall, of Holy Trinity, we believe that Dr. Paddock, of St.

Peter's, State street, has gone to Europe. Dr. Buckley, of the Methodists, will pass the Summer Stamford, and other places. Rev. Newland Maynard, of the Eastern District, continue his studies of Cathedral architecture in the Old World.

Dr. Ingersoll, the Middle Reformed Church, is at the Adirondackn, and Dr, Eggleston, of the Church Christian Endeavor, has packed his carpetbag and followed "the Horatian precept," "Go "West, young man, go West." Rev. Dr. Partridge, of Christ Church, is in Europe, and Father Malone is the guest of Mr. Havemeyer, Saratoga.

Rev. Lindsay Parker, of the Sands street M. E. Churoh, has set out for Europe. It will be seen from the above list, which includes a small portion of our clergy, a larger number of them than usual have taken the steamships "foreign countries for to "see." These men work hard, and no' one grudges them their Summer holiday.

Yet it must be confessed that their "lines have fallen pleasant places" when contrasted with the of their clerical predecessors in Brooklyn. Then the Summer vacation was not the rule, the exception, and the ablest pulpiteers thought themselves happy in the annual allowance of one month's holiday. So far from thinking that a two or three months' holiday delctorious to the preacher himself, or to flock be superintends, we only wish flock could go away with the shepherd, and that he could lead them all Summer beside the "green pastures and "the still waters" of his country retreat. Too much work is the curse of a utilitarian age when everything, is carried on at high pressure. Why is it that the clergyman is generally a man of calmer brow, and wiser speech, in to by if for no of be not if the will they a to thifl on' to the to and The planet discovered at Berlin, July 17, by Professor Peters, is Friggs, according to the statement of Professor Balrd, of tho Smithsonian Institute.

The firm of Dnncan, Sherman of New York, will pay their creditors a dividend of fivopcr cent, on August 4. Yesterday waa commencement at Colby Uni vorslty, Waterrllle, and the Baccalaureate sermon waa proachod by President Robins. The death rate in New York, the past week, was higher than for any previous week of the present year. The Socialistic Labor party of Newark are to hold a meeting to morrow evening to take measures to avenge the death of Armstrong, who was recently shot at Montclair by Blair. The stoamer G.

T. Olyphant, advertised at Stamford, to mako an oxoursion to Coney Island yesterday, struck a rock early in the morning in Stamford Harbor and sank. Sister of Charity Mary Francis, for twenty years a member of the order in which she died, is to bo buriod to morrow from St. Mary's Convent, Newark. Thofuneral will occur at St.

Patrick's Cathedral. The colored military companies and citizens of Atlanta, and vicinity, decorated the grave of Coronol Alston on Friday, in memory of his friendship for the colored raoo ond his sorvioos In tho Legislature on the convict question. The Spiritualists of Philadelphia are holding a camp meeting at WUlctt's Station, on the Bound Brook Railroad, Just beyond the Delaware, in Bucks County, Ponn. Thero wore about eight hundred people present yesterday. Three steamers have left Bismarck, Dakota, during tha past week, carrying supplies to General Milos' supply station at Fort Peck.

Slllitary supplies enough to equip a division are being forwardod to that point. A number of vacancies exist at tho West Point Military Academy, and nominations are to be made by members of Congress from various States among others, New York, Kentucky, Colorado, Massachusetts, Mississippi ond Ohio. Tho appointments are made a year in advance. The organization of a world's fair does not progress toward completion. A statement of tho various stops that have been taken has been published, giving all tho details connected with the various meetings and conventions.

Since tho meeting in Now York on tho 19th of Juno, nothing has been dono. PoterNeff, ono of the oldest and best known citizens of Cincinnati, died yesterday, aged 81 years. He was President of the Chxiutror of Comiuerco for a number of years and held several honorary positions. He made a fortune in tha wholesale hardware business, in which he was engaged for years. Late last night two drunken laborers, J.

Skelly, of 73 Verona street, and Hugh Doherty, of the foot of Hicks street, and Peter BuriiH, of 119 Imlay atroet, had a drunken quarrel in Hicks street, and Burns drow a pocket knife ond stabbed Skolly, inflicting a alight wuund over tho oyo. None of tho mon wore arroated. There woro five thousand peoplo present yesterday at the Becond assembly of the Now Jeraoy State Suuday School Association, at O'coau ilrovo, N. J. The Row Dr.

Dehoas, who, for seven yeara, was United States Consul in preached. The evening Borvico was presided over by ltev. Dr. Payne, President of Wcaleyau Collego, Ohio. Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs.

Hull, is indignant that so many false stories aro circulated regarding him. Ho denies that ho laughed ou hii way to the court room, and says that the detcctivoj riM.irted to the gaino of tickling him to cause him to do so. lie nays that niuuy of tho witnesses wero mistaken in their statements, aud particularly Captain Williams, whom he condemns bitterly. Since Congress passed a law granting three months' extra pay to officers, enlisted mon, Bailors, marines and roveuuo cutter men who served in the war with Mexico, tho Treasury officials havo been over whelmed with application for tho three months' wclra pay. The indications ore that every survivor of The Mexican war and noarly ovory heir of tho dead soldiers will bo heard from.

The stoamer Adelaide carried a large num ber of porsons to Long Branch yesterday, and the scenes on the return trip woro described as disgusting and shameful. Men were drunk and tho soa wa heavy, and tho conscquonco was that tho decks wero soon filthy. Many ladles on board hod thoir droiaea ruined from tho condition of the many boor drinker aboard. The crowd was so donse that no escape waa possible for any ono. State Senator D.

S. Ford, of Queen Anne County, while bathing at Ocean City, yesterday afternoon, was drowned while trying to rescue a lady acquaintance who had bocome exhausted iu the water. Several persons rushed into tho water aud brought them ashore, but Mr. Ford could not bo resuscitated. His be trothed stood on the shore and saw the struggles of lior lover in tho water, and was prostrated when sho learned of the calamity that had befallen nor.

Sbo is a nleco of Oeuoral Emory, of the United States army. Mmo. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte's grave in Groouwood Comotery, Baltimore, Is to bo marked by masslva tomb of white marble to cost $1,400, the amount sot opart in her will for this purpose The en tiro mound of tho grave will bo covered by a slab of Itallsn marblo, rising from which will bo eight fluted columns, between which will bo eight tablets, each bear lug inscriptions briefly recounting tho career of tho decoased, The top will bo oompodod of three massive slabs entirely devoid of ornament, and the total height will Iw four feet and six lnchos without the pedestal. On ttio front tablot will bo inscribed "Elizabeth Pattor iou," with the date of her birth and death. Tho Constitutional Convention of Louisiana on Saturday adopted an ordinance recognizing the indebtedness of the State to the fiscal agont as and to the Mechanics' Oollogo fund at $205,280.

It givos bondholders tho option of exchanging consolidated bonds at seventy five cents on the dollar for new bonds, boariug four per cont. lntoreat, aud provides that coupons of oonsolidalod bonds due in January, 1880, shall be remitted to the State, aud that oil interest fund money then on hand shall go to a general fund for dofraylng the oxpeuses or the State. This action is regarded in effect as a settlement of tho debt question, as far as the convention is concerned. The yellow fever has broken out with fury at Memphis and thore were four deaths and ton now cases yesterday. Tho sporadic thoory is exploded, and the worst fears are realized.

Tho city authorities are aendlng the poor pooplo away as fast as possible, and citizens are leaving on overy outgoing train. The only peoplo remaining are tbuso unable to go and others whoso presence is Imperatively demanded. There will be left about ten thousand people. Business housos aro closed, the doily papera ore issuing only half sheets and tho prospocta are gloomy snd depressing. The Missis, slppi Valley is quarantined, and all tho precautions will be taken to prevent tho spread of the disease.

Fenian clubs are organizing all over the coun try and the Brothorhood is greatly encouraged. The agricultural distress in England and Ireland Is regarded as a hopeful Btgn, tho loadors believing that the newland laws will bring about a comparative impoverishment of tho aristocracy. They further anticipate the ultimate obolitlon of the oxponao of monarchy ond tho eatabliah nient of republic. Secret moetinga are held every week In all tbe Eastora cities, and tha Brotherhood arc actively engaged in Increasing the interest felt in tlu cause. Henry D.

Palmer, of the firm of Jarrett fc Palmer, of New York, died In London Saturday. He had recontly been In Germany fqr his health, and later went to London to oousult a noted physician. Mr. Palmer wont abroad last year to mansgo tho troupes playing "Undo Tom's Cabin," and at the timo of his death had with him one of the troupes. He was widely known as a theatrical manager and was suooessful aud popular in his buafueas.

His family consists of his wlfo and two children, whom ho leaves In comfortable circumstances. His fortune is variously estimated at from $150,000 to A Boston Manufacturer, Samuel W. Brown, was arrested yostorday for planning to defraud tbe insurance companies by burning bis building. He offered mm $20 to set ths fire, snd promised to give tSOO when he should see tbe flames and smoke. Tbe man gave information to the police and the place was watched.

Brown and an accomplice were in tho store, the floors of which were saturated with turpontino and varnish, and cans of tho fluid were flung in heaps of In flainmabio matter. Every preparation was made for thorough work. The building, which Is a five story one, has boon on fire twico before. It was occupied by Brown as a furniture wareroom, and the uppor port was a manufactory. Captain Eobert Bain, of the steamer Lang show, which left Now York Friday afternoon, wos drowned off Fire Island that evening.

Uo was seen on deck pacing up and down, and was noticed by the man the wheel to step across the boards over ths cattle pen and thence to that part of the stern abaft the wheel known aa tbe half round. Nothing more was seen of him. Tbo wheel man missing, him shortly after, blow whistle vigorously and tbe engines were stopped snd boat lowered. The search was unavailing. The first mate decided to bring tbo vessel back to New York, and arrivod at Quarantine yoBterday.

Captain Boln was thirty six years of ago and leaves a wife and two children. He was an exceptionally kind hearted man, and officers of the line and his crew were deeply attached him. Tho officers appointed another captain, and vessel sailed again on Saturday afternoon. Tho vessel carries no passengers and waa laden with a general cargo. An ezplosion occurred on the steamboat Dsnlel Drew on Friday night last whilo she was on her way from Troy to Now York.

Tho explosion was followed by the greatest excitement among tho posaengers, no one was seriously hurt. A passenger who refused to give his right name, but who is beHeved to bo insane, exploded two cans of powder in his state room, comploty demolishing them. Tbe officers of the boot gave him in charge of the police at Albany. The latter examined him and believe that he la an accomplice of gong of thieves who intended during the panic, which would naturally enough follow an explosion, to rob the passengers. Several thieves were found an board ths boat.

The plan railed and the money and Jowolry of passengers wss left In ths possession of thoir owners. The Injury dons to tbe boat can repaired for (500. The steamer Glendon, which was eont to Sable Island to rescue tho posaengero and crew of the fated State of Virginia, has returned to Hallfsx with the passengers and several of ths crew. The purser reports that the stssmsr now lies parallel to tbe beach with her bow buried so deeply in the and ifuA. (Mil wots breaks over and washes forwspirrl, while nor stern Is almost on ti rely under the water.

A considerable portion of the cargo bas been saved. Tbe officers of the Virginia, except the purser and several engineers and firemen, remained ot Sable I aland to look after the wreck. Before leaving island the passengers passed a series of resolutions thanking the Csnsdlan Government for the protection and comfort given them also ths superintendent of the island and his family and the men, who did everything their power to save thun. They also commended tho officers of the vassal for their kindness snd calmness and particularly thanked tbe captain for bis generous treatment of ail under his care. The passengers are making smngementa to go their several ways, and they separated with reluctance, hsvlog becomo interested in each other in consequence of, tbe dangers they hod shared together.

Ho in to E. tx M7. MR. 530. 3M.

vvt. XH. ti comfort of the masses commended themselves especially to Democrats. If Mr. Culver should bo a candidate for Mayor, and if tho race should be close, the fact that he obtained tho right of way for his railroad without cost might tell conclusively against him, but it is possible there is a better explanation of this transaction than has yet been given to the public.

William Engeman is, in an especial sense. one of the pioneers of the Island. He risked a fortune on its future, and the old Ocean Hotel, in its day, was thought to'be one of the most attractive places accessible to Brook lynites. But Engeman would never content himself with tho office of Mayor. He would sicken of ennui, if tho task of running the entire city government were intrusted to him The undertakings to which Mayor Engemau might commit himself would be too adven turous for Brooklyn to initiate beforo its present indebtedness is paid off.

Mr. Enge man will become conservative with years, and as he is still a young man, he can wait, and so wo place him outside of the present available list of Coney Island candidates for tho May oralty We might go on extending the possible list of candidates whose names are associated with Conev Island, but there are none of them quite as strong as thoso whose names we have boon discussing. Mr. Jamos Breslin, of tho Brighton, would not do for Mayor of Brooklyn, because, when he is at Willard's, he is a Washingtonian at the Gilsoy House, he is a New Yorker at tho Brighton, he is a Cosmopolitan Mr, Sweet, of the Brighton, is too young for Mayor Major Burnap, of the Manhattan, would be an available man in many ways, but thon the voters of the Jewish race would uot favor him, for ho has the singular prejudice of a hotel keeper against thorn, not on the odious ground of nationality or creed, indeed, but on the more tangible ground that they are not popular hotel patrons. Wo arc not in a position to state what tho strength of the Hebrew vote is in Brooklyn, but wo have no hesitation in saying that tho Major would find it cast solidly against him.

This would injure the Major with tho politicians. "Mike" Norton, of Norton's Point, was once so powerful in politics in New York that he became known as tho "Thunderbolt. His former famo, however, would not help him in Brooklyn. Our own "Bickeliou" is rapidly associating his historic no deplume with that of the modern wonder, but he finds his old calling so much more pleasant than polities, that we question if he could bo seduced into again abandoning it. Chief Justice Voorhees, who administers law ou the Islaud, would have the advantage of his old Knickerbocker name in the contest, but it is more than questionable if the Judge would put aside the judicial ermine to be even Chief Magistrate of Brooklyn.

TIw Letellier Case and Parliamentary Government in Canada. Our Canadian frionds have been more or less agitated for several months past by the ques tion whether the Governor General of the Do minion is bound to dismiss lieutenant governors on the advice of his Cabinet. The ques tion is ono which involves, to some extent, the rights of Parliament, as contrasted with the arbitrary powers vested in the representative )f the Queen. If the Governor General may op at tho head of the various provinces lieu nauts who are obnoxious to Parliainont, is plain that at times the adminis tration of tho Dominion must bo far from harmonious. If he caunot do so, it follows that the last important vestige of dependence upon tho will of the Home authorities has disappeared, so far as tho civil administration, at least, of the Dominion is concerned.

Anyone ainiliar with the development of rule by Parliament through ministers appointed by tho majority, can see that the question here involved is by no means insignificant. It involves no less than that the civil patronage of the Dominion is to be at the dis)osal of the majority, and that the Governor General is to be no ruoro than the nominal dispenser of it. This issue was raised over Lieutenant Governor Letellier, of tho Province of Quebec. He, it appears, dismissed the Ministry of that province in thomajority which it represented were intractable. That he had no right to do so must be held, unless the theory of responsible government is to be abandoned.

Taking cognizance of his behavior, Sir John Macdonald, lender of what is called tho Tory party, moved a vote of censure on him in the Dominion Parliament. The motion was defeated but at the election which shortly followed the people returned an overwhelming majority of members pledged to voto for the adoption of the motion. When the new Parliament assembled the vote of condemnation was passed, and thon Sir John Macdonald, who had in the meantime been made Premier, advised Lord Lome, Governor General, to dismiss the offending lieutenant. Lord Lome showed an indisposition to act on this advice. He inclined to the view that the removal or retention of the lieutenant was entirely a matter within his own discretion.

The Ministry held to tho contrary, and the question was referred to England for settlement. Wo now have the information that the English authorities have declined to pass upon the question. It has bo referred back to Lord Lome with instructions to judge for himself, and he has judged it politic to submit to the Ministry. Lieutenant Governor Letellier is to Be dismissed. While the Beaconsfield Ministry have thus declined to put themselves on record, it is understood that the law officers of tho crown hold that the position taken by Sir John Macdonald is sound.

In other words, the Parliamentary theory of England is extended to the Dominion. Responsibility for the government of the province is lodged in the Ministry, and the Viceroy must be guided by their advice. Yellow Fever. Ten new cases of yellow fever were yesterday reported to the Board of Health of Memphis. Eleven deaths have occurred within sixteen days, and although the disease is not of the malignant type of last year, it is spreading with the deliberate and steady progress which marks its epidemic form.

In view of the deep interest felt in this mysterious plague the Eagle yesterday published a timely and interesting article on the disease, reproducing the little that soienoe can tell us of its nature and cause, and giving with considerable detail its history in this and other countries since was first known. The visits yellow fever has paid to Brooklyn are also given in the order of their occurrence. This terrible infliction, like the Asiatic cholera, has literature of its own, and every fact in connection with it is interesting. What little we know of it is simply its outward phenom ena. Everything else is mere speculation.

The latest theory points to the agency of some minute insect or organic animal or vegetable form possessing the power of propagation and locomotion for tho discovery of which we must ultimately look to the microscopist. It is well known that its rate of progress is a regular, assignffble quantity, that it spreads most rapidly near the ground and that its advance is prevented nor much modified by adverse winds or material barriers that are not absolutely impassable. It is melancholy to think that we really know nothing about the disease beyond data of history and the formulas of the course of its treatment, which latter are not any means infallible. The fever travels in great epidemic waves it moves with regularity from house to house, spreading in cities at rate of about forty feet a day, and its presence appals the stoutest heart and people before it as they would from death itself. Brooklyn, with all its sanitary prcautions, has been exempt from yellow fever.

Its first visit here was in 1804, during a cool and otherwise healthful Summer. The second visit occurred five years later, and it repeated visits in 1823, in 1856 and 1860. Few old residents have forgotten the panic which itruok the people of New Utrecht when fever broke out there and raged with great fatality in 1856. Brooklyn hopes to be spared infliction this year. Whatever yellow fever may itsolf be, there is no doubt that it is more readily propagated under conditions of and neglect.

There is no doubt that proper sanitary measures modify and mitigate pestilence, if. they do not prevent it. With the present advanced condition of sanitary science yellow fever could hardly become epidemic in this city, but the existence of a few cases might produce a panic which would very disastrous in its results to business and health it therefore, bolioovep the au a a a is is at J. but at will of of at only that "in lot but is the the A. Glorious Sunday at tlie Beach.

An Immense Concourse of Pleasure Seekers on the Sands, For many hours yesterday and along a great portion of the beach at Coney Island tha Bound of Instrumental muslo never ceased. It was of the highest oraer. each music. In' fact, as small and oultivotad audiences have been obliged to pay high prices In order to enjoy tho ploasure of hearing. Yesterday It was listened to by an audienco numbering, at a moderate computation, at least fifty thousand.

The price they paid for the privilege of orijoylng the highest and most refined pleasure the arc of man has bees able to provide for the entertainment of hla fellows was the Bmall outlay Inourred in paying for a pleaaant ride to the greatest watering plaoe in the world. The music was but one of the many pleasures the visitors to the iBland enjoyed. It was to many bat an lnoident In the day's enjoy ment. Thousands took a plunge in the surf. Othors wandered along the sands or gazed with delight on tho wide expanse of ocean spread out before them.

The magnificent hotels, the ever moving kaloidoscoplo pic tures presented by the gaily dressed throngs furnished an ample fund of enjoyment for others, whose tastes led them to delight In viewing, the beautiful and pic turesque in art' and nature. Strong, bright lights, with broad and striking effects, formed the outlines of a scene some of tho details of which will be found de scribed below. raanliattan Beach. The numerous bright colored flags that float over Manhattan Beach were nover wrinkled yesterday, Tho strung and brisk breeze from the southwest kept them unfurled, and there they floated the whole day long, patches of crimson sharply defined against the bright bla sky, Tho waves sparkled and flashed" In tho sunlight. Everything was clearly outllnod in tho clear, crisp atmosphere.

The gorgeous hues of tho flowers and brightly burnished Instruments of the musicians. though so near at hand, seemed hilt details of one grand and beautiful picture, the background of which was the foam crested ocean and the woodod and preolpitous heights of tho Navoslnk. Thousands of people, though how many of thorn it would be difficult to state with anything liko accuracy, woro moving about in tho fore ground. To tell whore the peoplo came from would be as diffl oult as to state their numbor. Men and women wero there from the far West.

As they gazod on tho evor changing face of tho ocean the scene doubtless reminded them of the distant prairies. The incidents of their trip East will form the subject for many a conversation in tho farmhouse hundreds of miles away. Down East ers wore there, natives of tho sunny South, tho land of the Cotton Tree and tho Coon, helped to swell the numbor. But the' visitors from far away homes formed scarcely a moiety of the assemblage. It was principally made up of Now Yorkers.

Fifth avenue, Chatham street and tho great east side were all reproBonted. Every train that rolled into the depot from Bay Ridge and Greenpoint was loaded with men, woinon and ohil dren from Now York. Yesterday it appeared as though Manhattan Beach had been invaded by New Yorkers, so numerous wero thoy, and so fow and far between wero tho Brooklyn ites. It was certainly a well dreasod, orderly, well be haved and happy looking throng. From tho depot the visitors spread out fauwise right, left and straght forward.

Dlningroom, orchestra or bathing pavilion wero sought out. Sevoral thousands, men, womeu and children, patronized the spacious buildings thijad been erected for the accommodation of thoso wishing to batho. Almost aB mauy more ontored tho amphitheatre from which thoy could watch tho lively aud grotesque scenes onactod iu the water. The water was warm and pleasant, and jubt sufficiently rough to add additional zost to the ploasure of those who entered it. The musical progi ammo included some ot the moat highly appreciated selections from tho had kuown workB of tho greatest masters, and evory pic co wa 3 rendered in tho finished stylo for which Gllnnro's baud is celebrated.

Mr. Levy was repeatedly encored, and tho eiithusiastlo reception ho received must have uoen exceedingly gratifying. The closing pieco on' tho programme was Handel's Hallelujah" Chorus, from tho Messiah," and thon as a wind up tho graud old tuno, Old Hundredth," was given, and to it uot a few of the vast audienco uruishod vocal accompaniment. Among thoso who registered thoir names at the Man hattan Hotel yesterday were Hon. Charles Deveus, Attorney General of tho Unitod States, and his first as sistant, Hon.

Charles Payson. Thoy arrived quite oarly iu the day in company with G. K. Ohasc, of Now York. J.

H. Lyman and James Comstock, of Albany GcorgePlummer and wife, of Boston; Chas. H. Hans oom, of Boston, and Goo. E.

Nichols, of Chicago, also registered there. Many well known gentlemen were noticed among tho visitors. Not the least important woro Goneral Frauk Spinola, of New York; Colonel Rodney C. Ward, of the Board of Police and Excise Gordon L. Ford, Chief Nevins, Counselor Ready, Robert McCann and A.

C. DeMemtt, of the Board of City Works. Brighton Beach. Tho proprietors of Brighton Beach had cer tainly every reason to feel satisfied yesterday with tho manner in which their magnificent hotel aud its beau tif ul surroundlngB wore patronized. Tho place was orowded with visitors from an early hour In the morning until the last train left in the evening.

No place on the Island appears to be more highly appreciated by visitors than Brighton Beach. Wherever else they go a visit to tho Island is not considered oomplete it Brighton Beach la not Included In programme. Yester day the trains of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Conoy Isl. and Railroad carried several thousand visitors down to Brighton Beach, and the number was boing constantly augmented by arrivals from Cablo's on one side and Manhattan Beach on the other. The result was an im mense gathering.

It was as quiet and orderly an assemblage as could be found anywhere in the world. Rough "and improper characters have, however, long since learned that Brighton Beach is not a desirable or healthy place for them to visit, and they generally give it a wide berth. The police arrangements under "Uncle" John Folk ara admirable, and work to perfection. He has two officers constantly under his personal supervision at the front of the hotel, and two others are in tho rear, where pas sengers land from tho incoming trains. On the arrival of every train each passenger is closely scrutinized, and the manner In which thoBe whose presence is not desirable are quietly and effectively got rid of cannot, perhaps, be better desoribed than by relating what a gentleman said last evening It was "Tho proprietors have some first olass detec tives in their employ.

An Improper charaoter cannot get further than tho piazza. The other evening I was sitting out there when a man in citizens' olothes came up and touched a person Bitting near me on the shoul der, and said 'You must leave hero by tho next train. Tho person spoken to got up without Baying a word, and walked off to the depot, and the officer kept watch there until the train loft." The ooncerts given at Brighton Beach yesterday, un der the direction of Professor Neuendorff, were listened to by audiences numbering many thousands, and the strains of his fine band elicited applause, tho sound of which drowned tho roar of the surf. Signor Liberati and M. Lefebre aro daily growing in popular favor, aa was evinced by the enthusiastic manner in which they were received yeBterday.

Tho managers of Brighton Beach appear to bo untir ing in their efforts to cater for the enjoyment of tho public, and on Wednesday evening next thoy have an nounced that grand musical entertatumont is to bo given there which will surpass anything of the kind ever attempted on the Island. In addition to the in strumental music furnished by mem bora of the New York and Brooklyn Philharmonic societies, under the direction of Professor Neuendorff, there will be vocal music rendered by sixty members' of the New York Saengerbund, with H. Grolner as director. If tho weather is fine on Wednesday evening there will be a musical treat provided on Brighton Beach that but few of the lovers of sweet Bounds will be willing to miss. Bathing yesterday at the Brighton Beach grounds was indulged in by so many persons that at times the water appeared to be completely dotted with heads bob bing up and down, and the frolics of those in tho surf afforded great onjoyment and amusement to hundreds of spectators on the beach.

Among those registered at the Brighton Beach Hotej yesterday were General Frank Reeder, F. L. Terry, Henry Green, S. V. B.

Rushline, 0. M. Anstell, Brodhead and H. 3, Reeder, ol Eaatonj Goners, Thomas S. SarriBoji, of Philadelphia Edgar Mills, of Ban Francisco, President of the Bank of California Dr.

James Darrach, of Germantown. Hon. L. P. Achmead, of Pennsylvania H.

B. Plant, President of the Southern Express Company J. L. Walkor, of England C. J.

Langdon, of Elmira, and A. Lathiop, Oj Corning. Among the visitors were U. 8. District Attorney A.

W. Tenney, General Catlln, Colonel Henry 0. Healey, Captain Edward A. Bernard, Colonel TrttesdelL John F. Henry, Captain Steers, John P.

Hudson, Granville W. HarBSHl, Congressman O'Reilly, Edward Lamb, Alderman Willloms, John Linaky, Alderman Balrd, Counselor Dickerson, Counselor Max Brill, Captain W. S. Gregg, F. S.

Masaey, Alderman Stewart, Jonathan Norton, George H. Rowe, Weorge Bice, Dennis MoNa mara, W. H. Howe, William M. Laffan, Colonel George Sharps, Edgar M.

Oullen, Charles A. McLaughlin, Oscar W. Friable, Oscar King, Alderman Bay, Orlando Bennett, Harry Beam, John L. Burtls, Dr. J.

Leotor Keep, Martin Breen, Harry Adams and Robert Bligh. Went Brighton. The usual elements of enjoyment were in full working order at this seoUon of the beach yesterday, and were very fully taken advantage of by a large crowd. It Is getting a little difficult to ascertain whloh the main source of tha supply of visitors, tho arrivals the mammoth pier being sufficiently large to compare favorably with the business of the railroads. One thing very evident about the Sea Beach line.

With the Harelm steamers tapping New York In its behalf it will provoamost formidable rival to the Manhattan road, and there are those who predict for it a place in popular favor which will be second to none. The managers of company have no doubt of tha thorough success of their enterprise, and they tan displaying any quantity energy In tha disposition of the meana at their disposal. The depot, bo long unused, is being transformed into one of the most Btrikingly attractive structures on tha beach and tha grounds surrounding as well as the buUalng itself, are to be subjected to half a million dollars' worth of improvements. The travel on the Boa Bacb road yesterday was very extensive, the ears being wen ere wded every trip after four o'clock until thi evening was well advanced. Culver's road was not by any means forgotten.

Early In the afternoon the cars began to fill up, the number of pas eengers Increasing In an accelerating ratio until vacant seats upon the trains were nowhsre to.be found five minutes after the gates were opened. With the arrival every steamer came throngs of pleasure seekers, who distributed themselves impartially at the various places resort. It was a very lively day upon the Oonoourae, Btages doing a business which must have Involved fabulous returns. The haokmen did a very much mora desultory trade, but they were not by any means without patronage, and at twentycents for a trip, not over minutes in duration, must bate been reaping handsome profits. The percentage of people traveling over from West Brighton to Brighton Beach waa very largo, many thousands of them footing, it over the Concoursa durina the day, Xh tide ot Btt weritr waa in full E.

of is or of the B. it the by trict her the was at and the was Miss rie of ly and Mies lady that MONDAY EVENING. JULY 21, 1879. Tliis Paper baa the Largest Circulation of any Evening Paper Publtsbod in the United Slates. Advertising Medium parent.

Its value as an Is therefore ap Coney Island Candidates for mayor. Coney Islaud has been notinaptly referred to as the Summer City by the Sea. In time, when the Mood becomes part of Brooklyn, Brooklyn itsplf may claim this distinction, for when the boundaries of the city come to be coextensive with those of the county as they will Borne day Brooklyn will be bounded on every side, except one, by the waters of the Atlantio Ocean. Coney Island has been built up as if by magic. The Founders of "Conoy Island" are all living, and they are for the most part all young and vigorous.

That they are energetio and far seeing men is proved by the amazing sucoess of their undertaking. If Coney Island were now a part of Brooklyn, it is not at all improbable but that there would be a strong sectional sentiment in favor of select ing a Mayor of Brooklyn from among the men who may be Baid to have created Coney Island that is, as a popular and fashionable water ing place. Nearly all the men who are identified with the recent improvement of Coney Island happen to be self made men. Mr. Howell, the present Mayor of Brooklyn, is one of the olass of men who may be said to be the architects of their own fortunes, and he has served this city, upon the whole, so well, that the always popular class of men to which he belongs is more popular than ever.

Brooklyn will be vory much disposed to solect its Mayors from this class for many years to come, if the politicians will give them the chance to do so. There will be no difficulty iu finding a candidate from among the self made men, and the development of Coney Island has brought the names of a numbor of thorn prominontly before the public not as politicians, of course, but as citizens who have given assurance, in their success in managing their own business, that they could transact the public business with great skill, if they should bs called upon to do so, and if they should b3 willing to uudortake the duty. The most notable enterprise on Coney Island is, unquestionably, that in charge of the Manhattan Beach Company. It is now running half a dozen steamboats from various parts of Now York to two points on Long Island Bay Itidge and Greenpoint. It has two linos of railroad running to Coney Island, and it is operating two short but distinct lines of railroad, on Coney Island itsolf.

The hot9l and other buildings owned by the company form a good nixnd town in themselves. The employes of the company are a3 numerous, in the Summer soason; as those in the servioe of the City of Brooklyn. The company maintains its own police force it employs a corps of detectives it has its own band, and no crowned head in Europe oan command thn services of a larger and better one, Mr. Austin Corbin is the head of the Manhattan Bench Company. If ho ran for Mayor of Brooklyn, and was as successful in that enterprise as ho has been as the head of the corporation he now represents, in two years the af fairs of Brooklyn would be iu such a shap; that the most timid property owner would como to the conclusion that Brooklyn was all right.

Of course, the politicians would try to hamper Mayor Corbin in many ways, but he would, possibly, be able to cir cumveut them. Mr. Corbin is eligible for the office, for ha has been for several years a citizen of Brooklyn, and before ho had the Manhattan Beach enterprise on his hands, he used to take a lively interest iu the political concerns of the ward in which he resides. Iu selecting the right kind of man for Mayor, politics, under existing circumstances, need not count for a great deal, but iu ordor that there may be no misapprehension about it, it is proper to add that Mr. Corbin is an unflinching Democrat, and the Democratic party has this much to ay, in its favor, that a man so observing as Mr.

Corbin is, is firmly convinced that the country is more prosperous when the conduct of Foderal officers is intrusted to it. If Brooklyn should con elude to select a Mayor from among the Coney Island matmat'es, Austin Corbin would stand very high on the list of available candidates. The Brighton Beach enterprise resembles the Manhattan in very many essential respects. They are both great undertakings. Hon.

Henry C. Murphy is the head of the Brighton Com pany. Mr. Murphy would probably be quito averse to having his name used in connection with the Mayoralty. Although he is yet very active man, and is usually engaged in business ten hours out of every twenty four, still he is rapidly approaching that period of life when repose is at onco welcome and neces sary.

When dreBsed in his light Summer suit, and with his white hat rather rakishly set a little on one side of his head, few would have the tormerity to say that Mr. Murphy is too old for Mayor, and yet he might be in clined to think so himself, especially as he would not consent to be Mayor until he is able to get the East River Bridge enterprise off his hands, and that will not be for two years yet at the earliest. By that time Mr. Murphy might not perhaps like to undertake the labors of the Mayoralty. Again, Mr.

Murphy has had higher aspirations. He would have been nominated for Governor onco if it had not been for Tammany Hall and that organization was then even more vioious than it is now and it is a tradition in the Democratic party that when, in 18.r2, the Democratic delegation from the State of Virginia sottled the Presidency, by presenting the name of Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, as their candidate, the Virginians had the name of Mr. Murphy be foro them, and after long discussion they gave the preference to Pierce, solely because the military reputation he had acquired in Mexico was supposed to add to his popularity. If it had not been for that military episode in the life of the New Hampshire statesman, we would now have to refer to the administration of President Murphy whenever we have occasion to speak of that of President Pierce. When to all this is added the fact that Mr.

Murphy was Mayor of Brooklyn very nearly forty years ago, we will ba justified in excluding tho name of Henry C. Murphy from the possible list of Coney Island candidates for Mayor. In many respects, the enterprise with which the name of Andrew R. Culver is associated, is as romarkablo as that of either the Manhattan or the Brighton, Mr. Culver was among the first of the men who saw tho Conoy Island of the present and the future.

He built the first direct steam road to the Island, and he presented in Cable's Hotel a needed accommodation and a great attraction at the Coney Island terminus of his road. At one time Cable's was thought to be a wonderful place, but this was before ita glories were overshadowed by the larger establishments. We all remember the first real season when the beautiful women of Brooklyn, arrayed like the lilies of the valley, thought it to be a social duty to lend their bewitching presence to the charms of the scene at Cable's on the Summer nights during its opening season. All Brooklyn thought Cable's looked like fairy' land then, but then we did not know what fairy land was, or how much Coney Island on a Summer night could be made to resemble it. Cable's is still a strong favorite with the masses, and will doubtless continue to be so, and with Cable's, under its more recent and more imposing title of West Brighton, Andrew R.

Culver's name will always be associated. Mr. Culver is a wonderfully energetic man. He is a very shrewd man, too, and if he should be elected Mayor of Brooklyn, the politicians woukVhave to get up bright and early every morning in order to get the best of him, Iu timeB past, by the way, Mr. Culver used to taka an active interest, in local politics, and if making money has not changed him, be.

is still ambitious of political honors. Mr. Culver's name will stand high on tho list of Coney Island candidates for Mayor, Sooially, Mayor Culver would be a great sucoess, for great as he is an a railroad manager, he is perhaps at his best in the drawing room or at the head of a dinner table, when surrounded by pleas out and cultivated people like himself. Mr. Culver would walize the social success the Hon Demos Barnes dreamed of.

Singularly enough, the enterprising Mr. Culver, like Mr. Corbin and Mr. Murphy, is a pronounced Democrat, and it would seem, from the coin it a do not the by the flee not its the the filth this be sale of barrels in Now York and Brooklyn, and la wealthy. He is now residing in New Utrecht, near uain.

Among the sensible visitors to the beach, who brine meir wives anu raniillea with them, are District At torney Tenney, Amos Cummins, of the A'eu York Sun; Augustus Maverick, of the Commercial; Henry Har teau, George W. Bood, Judge Fisher, A. 8. Wheeler, John Oakey, W. L.

B. Steers, Judgo Maben, Oscar King, and Michael Walsh, of the Sunday Democrat. Among the frequent visitors are Robert Whlto, of tho Democrat, Frederick Queredo, of the Diipateh, William Gcoghogan, the poet; John Cooney, M. J. Coffee, Senator Kennaday, H.

Wheeler, James H. McGill, Jerome B. Wosb, P. J. Hoagan, Dr.

M. E. Elmendorf Supervisor at Largo Guthrie, Philip Casey, William Casey, Arthur W. Benton, Michael J. Dady, Charles Storrs, Register Barro, Collector Preeland, Judge Reynolds, Nicholas Saltus, John Williams, Seymour Hustod, Carroll Hyde, Robert Furey, Frederick MaBsoy, W.

H. Manfleld, J. L. B. Willard and ex Aldor mon Richardson.

Richelieu. Cannrslc Annming Scenes at Loir Tide. Canarsie was packed yesterday with a crowd of pleasure seekers, who made the little and usually quiet place a scone of bustle and life. The trains of the East New York, Canarsio and Eockaway Beach Railroad brought a continuous throng down to the little watering place all day long. Many of these passed over to Bockaway On tho steamer Potor Crary.

but onoutrh remained at Canarsie to keep the hotel keepers busy, The people spread all over. Many Bat under tho miniature pavilions In front of the hotel, eating and drinking, while others promenaded about thn vill Bouug uio uaoita oi me inhabitants, who follow fishing uu jarming ior a livelihood. Tho verandas of tho hotel were filled with pooplo, who sat drinking in tho lua' irom tho ocean, laden with a briny odor ana with hoalth giving qualitiee. The day was a beautiful one, and everyono seemed to enioy it. At tho many stands belonging to tha fishermen, situated noar mo uay view House, a thriving busiuoss in bivalves and crabs was dono.

Everyone soomed to think it hla duty to dovour enormous quantities of Bhollfish. The boat houses had not too many boats to supply tho do mauu. eBsois or every description were engaged, and fish wero lured from their hiding places in tho bay and became victims to the tempting bait. Large numbers of persons woro out for crabs, and mauy. both hard sueii anu soit shell, woro caught.

curing most oi mo day tho tide was low. Canarsie uay is rather peculiar iu this ro3peot. The tide runs in and out with great rapidity on the turns ot tha tidn. uiu quite a voimno oi water is moved. Whou the tide la out a person can walk over tho bay, with the exception of a few channel or drains, as the flshormon call mem, to KockSN ay Bosch.

Almost tha entire bottom mo bay beconie i uucovorod. To connect Canar. io with Rockaway liu jcli at this tido. a natural ohannolwas aug aoeper when tho road was origiually built. A trip across me Uay at low tide is one of tha most amusing lnciaouts of a day spont in the neighborhood of Canar sio.

Starting out on tho 3 o'clock boat yostorday, tho tiao was in mat state known as dead low. Tho channel pursuod is probably about thirty feet wide, and on both Bidos the Band banks are porfoctly bare. Along this channel wero innumerable boats, tho occupants of which were engaged in finning. On tho banks wore laro numbers of monlwith their snoes and BtocUngs off, and their pantaloons rolled up above their knees, pursuing tho luscious in his homo, by "treading," as tho fishermen tormit; that Is snowing melr toot to sink In tho soft bottom, uncere moniously entering the clam's house. When they fool tneir feet touoh tho shell, thoy immediately stick their hand down to tho spot and draw the luckless bivalve from his quiet home.

Occasionally these destroyers of me ciani's uopptnoss would oomo to grief. In tho eager neas of their pursuit thoy would not notice the depres sions which occasionally occurred in tho bay bottom, ourt suddenly thoy would find themselves in wator up to thoir walat. Of course thoso mishapB would call forth tho laughter and jokes of their oomrados. whilo the unfortunate individuals would mourn tho condition of their clothing. Many of the yachts which had taken parties out bluofiaUing early in tho morulug wore paused going toward homo.

All of tho parties seomed to bo in high glee. They passed so closo to the steamer that they could be hailed, and many inquiries as to tho sport they had experienced were answered, and overy party that passed would exhibit large numbers of fine bluoflah, which had followed a glittering troll to find that it was only a pieco of lead aud a sharp hook. When tho tido is low tha tiuio to tho boach is longer than at high tide, because tho channel which the atoam boat follows is vory tortuous and runs way down to the Rockaway Inlet, whore tho largo steamers enter. This course, although occupying a longer time to go over, la much ploasanter thau tha othor, bocauaa of tha increased advantages It gives of onjoying tho sconory. Ik used to be ono that was groatly droadod on account of tho great nuisanco that tho odor of Barren Island produced; but since the burning of tho fat rendering establishment, a Bhort time siuco, tho odor is hardly dis.

cernlble. On leaving tho dock the rango of hills, dotted with rosidoncos, the couiotorioB, tho Brooklyn Water Works and forests of great extent, and tho almost fiat land dotted with villages and farm lands, present a picture of great beauty. Toward the uppor ond of the bay tho same flat land, oovorod with greenness that la ref roshiug to tho eye, is bounded by tho range of hills which bends with the bay. As the boat passes along the land on the west side is all salt meadows. Ruffle Bar, with its small hostelry which is well known to evory fisherman and sportsman who visits tho bay, is passed.

Thon comes Barron Island, with its numorous factories, which, though useful to the city as a place to convey and burn up all its rubbish and dead animals, renders, at times, the beautiful watering place intolerable with its terrible odors. Then the inlet Is reached. Here a fino viow of Coney Island, with its unrivalod hotels, la obtained. Tha Marina road running toward the eaet end of Coney Island, the wrecking station and other objects of interest are easily discernible, and one can almost imagine that he can see the vast throng Bitting in front of the music stands or strolling along the odgo of tho boach. A boundless expanse of water covered with sailing vessels aud steamboats crowded with exourslonlsts Bpreads beforo tho view.

Thon the boat turns into tho beach ohannel, and a sail along the entire length of tho beach with its varying scenes is obtained. At last the various landings aro reached, the passengers landed and the boat begins its return trip. The tido by this time has turned, and the flat bottom of the bay which greeted the pasaeugors' viow on tho outward trip is covered with water and the boat is enabled to avail itself of tha shorter channels, and the voyago is reduced almost to half the distance. Notwithstanding tho largo crowd that visited Canar sie, uot an unpleasant scene occurred. Every one seom od to bo out for a day's sport, and although a great deal of beer was consumed ovory one seemed to be on his best bohovior and endeavoring to moke his neighbor aa happy as hlmsolf.

Much oredit is duo Mr. Littlcjohn's Superintendent, Mr. Warner, for the sucoess and quiet of this pleasant watering place. THE RAILROAD I.NVKST1GATI0H, To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle The last session of the Legislative Commit tee was a little dry for persons who aro not foud of figures, aud parties who thought Mr. Dopew was in earn est when he doclared that this investigation was instigated and kept alive by one or two individuals who were actnatea oy purely toman anu personal motives, thought the investigation was taking a wide range.

Those parties are evidently unfamiliar with tho scope of the resolution under which the committee were act ing, and which, in addition to freight discriminations as between individuals, covers "tho powors of contracts and obligations of tha railroads chartered by this State. This part of tho investigation is, if possible, of greater importance thau the other. At lirat thought, it may not seem Important to the individual citizen, whether the nominal or real cost of a railroad 1b reported to the State but whon we turn to the law regulating this, we find that the jurists who originally drafted it, thought othorwiBO, as will bo seen from the following extract from CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY, LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY Sec. 33. The Legislature may.

when any such rail road shall be opened for use, from time to timo. alter or reduce tho rate 'ot freight, fare or othor profits upon such rood but tho same shall not, without tho consent of tho corporation, bo so reduced as to produoo with Bald profits leas than ten per centum per annum on the capital actually expended nor unless, on an examination of the amounts received and expended, to be mads by tho State Engineer and Surveyor and tho Controller, they shall ascertain that tho net Income derived by the company from all sourceB for the year thon last past Bhail have exceeded an annual Income ol ten per cent, upon the capital of the corporation actually expended. Now, for Instance, wlionjttie New York Central road reports a nominal cost more than three times aa great as the combined amounts ever nald in by stock and bond holders, apd charges the public rates for transportation which yield regular dividends upon tho ontiro mass and When the Erie capitalizes in her reorganization scheme, upon a basis of one hundred and fifty millions, whou her late Inventory does uot show a value of fifty millions, and the present management boldly avow the intention of charging the public rates, which will yield dividends upon the entire mass, docs It not Indicate that the public are to be taxed for transportation service more than the spirit of tho law allows 7 Thn rflnnrt of the IjeffiBlative Committee which inves tigaTed tuo coal combination last year thus character ized IU practice vi bkkk watering "DnrinB ths reoelDt of these enormous nrofits minv of the coal corporations, as was the case with railroads not enraged in the coal carrying trade, unable under their charters, or for other reasons, to declare dividends upon their stock that would absorb their unexpendod surplus, issued additional stock to tho stockholders, for which they paid nothing, Inaugurated what Is common known as stock watering, or a capitalization of eur plus earnings, which is in substance exacting money from the people, creating an indebtedness representing the same, and making this the basis for forever asking tho publio to pay interest upon their own money so ex acted." Railroad managers say that the amount of capital has nothing to do with rates for transportation. If this is why did Mr. Vanderbllt inflate his atock forty Beven millions in 1867 and 1868, upon which watered Block dividends have since been declared, amounting, with interest, to over fifty millions of dollars? Suppose that, instead of watering bis stock, Mr.

Vanderbllt had reduced his rates for transportation until they only yielded the legal ten per cent would not tho publio have had their traaportatlon cheaper and have benefited to precisely that extent 1 The truth of the business 'is, that taxation for transnortation dwarfs all other forms of taxation: it levies a first tax upon all that we eat, drink or wear, and unlike some forms of taxation, 11 falls heaviest upon poorer olasses. Every ton of coal and barrel of flour payB Its tax beforo it reaches the consumer, and railroad managers wield a far greater power to tax than does the Legislature. it is tnereioro oi me greatest importance mat tne obligations of railroadB should bo defined. For the lost quarter century thoy havo practically done as they pleased. The legislation of this period has been principally in their interest but there are sign that in the future they will be held to an accountability for the equitable management ot tho franchises which the people have conferred upon them.

Although enormously powerful, public opinion Is more powerful; and is crystallizing about some reforms, which, with propor effort, ore sure to come. The law virtually makes the publio a partner In these modern highways the State contributing the franchise and the corporations constructing the roads. Alter the Utter reaflza ten per cent, profit, the public are their share, in the shape of redactions in rates. How the roads are managed, deeply ooncerns all olasses of citizens. As stated in the address made by the committee ot Chamber of Commerce to the Legislative committee, upon the thoroughness of your investigation depends, In a great measure the oommerdal and industrial welfare of the entire community.

It Is hardly possible to imagine a subject of greater importance, or one which affords wider scope for patient, aUtesmsnUka Investigation. Let us hope that sufficient time will bo taken to make investigation comprehonBlva and thorough, and the report of tho committee a valuable contribution to the nistorv ox uio otato, The prisoners in the Passaic County (N. Jail are to work at stone breaking ten hours a day hencs orth, it being tho detarmlnation of tho authorities to rid themselves of the numerous tramps who get themselves sent to tail in order to bo supported. a at his It tho to the bnt the Ul all ths tha In enough to render a dip a highly comfortable operation. Mr.

Fefiman's bathing houses, which possess acoommo aatlons of a character not often seen in auch utructures, wore largely In demand, while the floor of 'his dancing pavuionwas covered with waltzers of the most tireless type. Some very astonishing stories were told of the endurance of the automatic cow. It is reputed to have been a source of milk sufflolenUv Drolinc to have shamed an entire herd of bovines, and to have displayed not the slightest symptoms of exhaustion at the close of this wonderful feat. Tho lacteal fluid it dispenses is not at all the least desirable bev erage to be found on tho beach, the proprietors of the stoical, boast being far seeing enough to know that thero Is nothing lost by furnishing a purs, wholesome article. No reliable estimate of the quantity of beer imbibed at Bauer's has been vontured on, but a practically limitless number of kegs remained at tor the business of tha day was over to show how extremoly difficult it is to keep the average palate moist.

Side shows of a variety of characters flourished amazingly yesterday. Shooting galleries wore in full blast and photographlo enterprises paid prodigious dividends on their somewhat meagre capital stock until tho daylight waned. Thd hostile velocipede was as irrepressible as ever, a marvelous faculty for getting in everybody's way, being Btlll its distinguishing characteristic. Not a single lnoident of anunploasant nature was hoard of during the doy, and by eleven o'olock nearly all of the thousands of visitors who had made West Brighton a scene of life and activity had departed in tho direction of then homes. The People Whom Richelieu Met at tho Island.

Special Correspondence of the Eagle. Conev Island, July 20, 1879. Dear Eagle The people coming to Coney island are no respecters of weather. When it is very hot they come in great multitudes, and when it is cold thoy keop not away. To day the air is stiff and keen, so that tfio.uowis una to Keep their doors and windows closed but esplanados, piazzas and dining rooms and tho water wero well filled with listeners, feastors and bathers.

All the railroads ran frequent and full trains, and the hotols, from Norton's to the Manhattan, had plenty of company. The display of fireworks by tho Alexandra Company. at the Manhattan last night, was vory flue, and was witnessed by an assembly of throoor four thousand people, who paid twenty five cents for admission and twonty five extra for reserved Boats. Tho display wub under the lmmodiate supervision of James Pain, who iiaa a jiuropoan ramo for pyroteohny. No such fire works hayo ever been beforo witnessed in the United States.

Tho asteroid rockets, which leave flootinir Hunts. changing colors as thoy Bail through the air the pigeon cotes, with hory pigoons flying "as doves to thoir win dows tho Pleiades bursting from exploding shells the rockets, producing sUvor stars with cometic tails the naval battle, in which two shlpa sail into each othor in broadsides of flame tho palace river steamboat and the final display, varioua colored lights shooting through and ourllng over each othor, forming most brilliant bouquots of flamo, wero all exceedingly grand and oeautirui. At tho Brighton I notice John A. Nichols. President of the Kniokerbookor Life Insuranco Company, of Now iorK, with hla wife, who is a lady known in Brook lyn for her charitable acts.

Mr. Nichols was born in Baltimore and waa educated in Now England. Returning to Baltimore, ho became tho goneral agent of tho Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, under the management of the late Mr. Stanton. Ho is now its President, aud uiauagos its affairs with ability and wis.

aom. lie resides in Clinton avenue. At the Brighton I find Hon. Henry Wattorson. editor or tuo LomavMe Courier Journal, with his family.

He was a momoor of tho Forty fourth Congress, and was oiectod July 8, 18 1 6, to fill tho vacancy caused by tho death of John Y. Parsons, in which capacity he served but for the short term. Ho made a good member, but his fame in journalism has a broader foundation than in Congress. lnero Is also at the Brighton quite a party from East on, i'ounsyivama, including Hon. Henry Green, S.V.

B. uacniiue, 0. M. Anstell, H. J.

Boeder, F. L. Terry, Gen eral i rank Itoeuor and Richard Brodhead. Tho latter is, I think, a son of Sonator Richard Brodhead, of that state, and a nqphew of Jefferson Davis. I know tho elder in tho Twenty eighth Congress, liMU 5.

tio was tnou in tho House of Representatives, in which at that time were many who afterward became Senators from their several States, and among them Hannibal Hamlin, John P. Halo (both Democrats then, afterward HepubllcauB), Alexander Ramsey (then Ropresentotivo from Pennsylvania, Binco then Governor of aud Sonator from Minnesota, and now moutioned as about to bo Secretary of War in President Hayes' Cabinet), Goorge S. Houston, John Slidoil, John B. Welles, Thomas Cliugmau, Garret Davis, Andrew Johnson and Stephen A. Douglas.

Hero also aro H. P. Plant, Presidout of tho Southern Express Company, and wife, and Hon. B. W.

Throckmorton, of New Jersey. At the Manhattan I notice Hamilton Harris aud family, of Albany. Harris is a prominent Itopubli. can member of the Souate, representing the Thirteenth Senatorial District, which embraces tho Comity of Albany. He was born in Cortland County in 1821 and was graduated at Union College in 1841.

Ho was mem her of the Assembly In 1851 from the Aloany City Dis trict, which wos largely Demooratio at the timo. Waa District Attorney of Albany County from 1853 to 1857, though the county had a Demooratio majority of 1,500, From 1864 to 1870 ho was Chairman of tho Republican State Committee. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Chicago National Republican Convention wbioh nomi nated General Grant. He was Chairman of tho now Capitol Commission from its organization till 1870, when ho resigned, and was the some year olocted to the Senate by a majority of two or three hundred over Jesse C. Dayton, who had been elected to the; previous Senate by a majority of over two thousand.

In 1876 ho ran for Congress, but was defeated by Terrence J. Quinn, tho brewer, slnoe deceased, by a majority of about nine hundred. Ho was re elected to the present Senate bya majority of two thousand and upward over William J. Maher. Ho bocamo prominent in tho con troversy over the new apportionment of tho State for Senators and Assemblymen.

At the Manhattan also I notice J. H. Maglnnis (William M. Tweed's son in law) and family. General Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, Attorney General of tho United States, is at tho Manhattan, and William M.

Evarts, Secretary of State, waa expected to aay, Dut has not arrived. He may come this ovoning, General DovonB was a promlnont actor In the disastrous battle of Ball's Bluff. Colonel Stone commanding at Pooiesvllle, Maryland, in October, 1861, ordered Gen eral (then oolonol) Devens, of the Fifteenth Massachusetts, to cross to HarrisonB Island in the Potomac, to ascend the steep bank known as Ball's Bluff, and to surprise the evening's camp at LeeBburg. Then there was no evening's camp as was reported, through an optical delusion, which made out of a row of trees, seen by moonlight, an extensivo encampment. Finding no en emy and falling back to the Bluff, he was there attack.

od by the enemy from tho surrounding woods. Colonel D. Baker, with bis California reglruent, was sent by Colonel Stone to re enforce Devens, and as ranking officer assumed command. In the battle he was shot through the head and killed. It was a disastrous engagement our loss was over ono thousand killed and wounded and prisoners.

General Stone was afterward for a long timo confined in Fort Lafayette, I think, for his failure to support Baker, Cogswell and Devens upon this occasion, but, I believe, was never tried. After tho war he wont to Egypt and obtained a high position, and had the entire confidence of the Khedive, General Devens was afterward severely wounded at tho Battle of Seven PJoes or Fair Oaks. Our present Aldorman of the Third Ward, Major William F. Altken, was a distinguished member General Devens' staff. Tha marvelous Midgets are drawing large and increasing andionces to see them at thoir palace In the eastern end of Brighton Beach bathing pavilion.

The young lady, Miss Lucia Zarato, is sixteen years old and weighs four and three quarter pounds. General Mite fifteen and weighs nine pounds. Tho General was born in Chenango County In the State of Now York, His father, Mr. Flynn, now resides In Oneida County, near Utica. The father and mother aro of tho usual size and have other children of ordinary stature and weight, so diminutive a human being as either of these can hardly be imagined.

Tom Thumb is a giant a monster compared to General Mite. Admiral Dot and Miss Jonnlo Quigloy, of the LiUputian Opera Company, are exhibited with them. They are about tho size of tho Tom Thumb company, but large compared with the Midgete. I saw Miss Minnie Cummibgs at Manhattan Beach, to all appearances recovering from her Bovore attack of nervous prostration. She was the heroine in the Bad Texan tragedy wherein Benjamin Porter, a whole souled gonial follow, was shot down In cold blood by James Cunie, a desperado, while attempting to defend tliss Cummlngs from tho barroom bully's insult.

This was tho eoooSd tragedy growing out of the representation of the play "Diplomacy," the first being the death of H. J. Montague in San Francisco, while playing the part of young English diplomatist, Captain Beau clero. At the beginning of last eeason, Frederick Warde and Maurice Barrymore formed a "Diplo macy" combination company end planned to travel with throughout the country. Like many another good organization upon the road last' season notwithstanding that the play waa a good one and tho east excellent, the enterprise did not meet with any great auceess large houses In one town being succeeded by small audiences in another, so that tho receipts of this engagement would be eaten up by the expenditures of tho next.

It waa then resolved to divide company into two troupes, one to be headed Wardo and tho other by Barrymore. In Barrymore's company were poor Porter, Josephine Baker, Barrymore, Minnie Cummlngs and othors. Porter had previously played at the Brooklyn Eastern Dis Theatre, and was well known as a manager, Miss Baker had made a reputation in New York by Interpretation of the part of Libbie Dear in "Mighty Dollar." Her mother, Mrs. A. F.

Baker, played leading business at the Park Theatre, when the only li years old, and of late years has appeared Abbey's Park Theatre among tho support of Bobson Crane. Barrymore, an English played at the Fifth Avenue Theatre under Daly's management. Miss Cummlngs waa a young lady rapidly earning name on stage. This branch of the party playing through the Bmall towns in the Southwen when the well known tragic affair took place. The Eaolb'b readers will remember how, after a performance, svhile Porter, Barrymore, Miss Cummlngs and Baker were seated in the railroad restaurant, Cur entered intoxicated and ready for a quarrel, as full shooting Irons aa of bad liquor; "how the blackguard made uncomplimentary remarks in the lady's presence spite of all decent protests; how Porter good natu red and kindly endeavored to calm the drink crazed Bend, how Currie Bhot him down like a dog.

The events of that night were vividly imprinted on Cummlngs' mind, particularly, as for a while she herself was in danger of death at the murderer's bond. Since that time she has been given to great nervous prostration, during whloh the whole bloody scene Is constantly renewed in her imagination. Tho trial ot Carrie was announced a short time ago, and Miss Cum. mlngs and Barrymore were ready to proceed against the desperado, but tho cose was postponed. Now the young visits Coney Island to bring back to her some of she has lost.

At tha earns plaoe 1b Charles Moss, ticket agent at Wallack's Theatre. Judge Van Hasan, of tha New Yar common Ploas, ly so, the to the tho This is a great blessing to their hearers, who have heard them fiddle on the same string for many years. It is recorded on the tombstone of an eminent English preacher that he delivered the same discourse more than five hundred times during his ministry. But surely 'enough is as good as a feast," and there may be such a thing as a sermonio surfeit and di dactic repletion. We are very glad, when our ministers como baok with a few new ideas.

It is like "now wine old bottles," and even if the old bottles burst under the unwonted fer mentation of a new idea, the result is no worse than that produced by the converted vintner who, after heUring Gough or Moody, turned his wine into the street and made everybody intoxicated by sending it streaming through the gutters. Seriously, there is a very great advantage in the temporary change of preacher which the vacation of the regular one anords. it is a popular but a very great mistake to suppose that the country parson, unknown to fame. wb.c fills for these few weeks a city pulpit, is an inferior man to the city pulpiteer clothed in purple and fine linen," and whose name is advertised on every town pump. George Herbert, Richard Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, William Paley, and in later times Robert Aris Wilmot and John Keble names that shino like stars forever in the firmament of tho Christian Church were'all "country yet fitted to adorn tho greatest cathedrals by their self consecration, their learning and their splendid eloquence.

We like, therefore, to see a young man from the country in our Brooklyn pulpits, and some of them in times past have so de lighted us that wo have invited and prevailed on them to stay for good. The Panic in Meinpltls. The discovery of ten new cases of yellow fever in Memphis has again spread consterna nation through the city and caused another panic. The word is well chosen. A panio is a sudden, unreasoning terror which deprives the panic stricken of the power of thought and converts them into a wild herd of creatures likely to injure themselves and each other "in the struggle to escape the daugor.

This danger is as otten imaginary as real. We do not mean to say that tho danger to residents of Memphis is imaginary, but the terror of the inhabitants, already demoralized in the face of the epidemic, seems to magnify it. Tho presence of mind which would stamp out a fire being absent a panic may ensue from a small blaze and do incalculable damage. Tho energy which the people of Memphis sudden ly exhibit in packing their trunks to leave tho city might, if properly directed, stamp out the plague in their city beforo it assumed dimen sions beyond their control. If they do not act at once and in concert they may have a yellow fever epidemic, whereas if they seek to re press the evil, they may eventually obliter ate it.

Five deaths a day from yellow fever do not constitute a very serious outbreakt The average Summer mortality in a city like Memphis must be something like twenty deaths a day, and to rush wildly over the country, deserting their city at the first warning is not the proper way to eradicate the germ for the future. How careless the people of Memphis are in spite of the warnings they have received may bo gathered from the fact that the first contagion was caused by the presence in a house of a trunkful of clothing bequeathed to its occupant by an actual victim of last year's epidemic. The clothes were taken out and the germs of fever lurking in them were liberated. How many hundreds or thousands of tainted garments are being or exposed in Memphis now it is impossible to say, and how many of these, if the panic continues, are to be carried to other cities to be shaken to the winds and to spread disease it is equally unsafe to guess. Before the panic stricken Memphians begin to rush away let them" at least burn their suspected clothing, and then, perhaps, they can find other means of cheoking the plague, instead of flying from it.

A Suggestive Yachting Accident. The distressing accident which resulted in the capsizing of a pleasure yacht near Quebec, and the drowning of a number of its occu pants, calls to mind the Mohawk disaster off Staten Island three years ago. The yacht was carrying a great deal of canvas, was caught a flaw while tacking and capsized. In the case of the Mohawk there was this difference, that the vessel had all sail set while at anchor, and there being no chance to covnert the force of the flaw into motion of the boat. she went over.

Her ballast, moreover, was loose, and shifted as the yacht capsized, thus depriving her of the last chance of righting herself. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, however, it is impossible to overlook the faot that while the American model for pleasure craft is exceedingly beautiful in design, and obtains far more speed than the English, beauty and speed are acquired at the expense of stability. In smooth water and light breezes the American yacht is un equaled, but the English cutter or schooner can sail where the American must double reef or run into shelter. It is claimed that the flatter bottom and light draught of the American vessel are necessi tated by the shallowness of our inlets, and are compensated for by greater breadth of beam, while the centre board supplies some of the stability of the keel while enabling the vessel sail nearer to the wind. All these are advantages, of course, but for all pleasure boats, stability, which is safety, would seem to be the first requisite to satisfy and the last to discard.

Even our most cautious amateur mariners are given to carrying more sail than is consistent with absolute safety. With a competent sailor at tho helm the Canadian yacht would probably not have been upset, but yachts ought to be built to protect in a larger measure the thousands of incompetents who essay navigation. Robbing the Few to Benefit the Many. If a citizen should be sot upon and robbed a dozen highwaymen, no rational person would drgue that the onminahty was less than all the plunder had gone to one. Yet by a strance sonhistrv" it seems to be taken for granted that if a oitizen'b property is ruined the enrichment of a hundrsd Others, he has such ground of complaint as he WbuM have, were the persons benefited less numerous.

The notion that there is somehow involved in the obligation to submit to the majority in matters government the right of the majority to enrich themselves at the expense of the minority is a fallacy of a dangerousjand debasing kind. To the man impoverished it clearly makes little difference whether the beneficiaries one or many, and unless the code of Christian ethics is to be turned upside down, those who join hand in. hand to hurt him are less immoral in profiting to the extent of a hundred dollars apiece than they had contrived singly to obtain several thousands. If our friends in outer wards who clamor for elevated railroads, because they will benefit their property, reflect upon the principle here set forth, will see that they have committed themselves to a principle of action that justifies larceny. If the elevated railroad will injure man'B property he cannot be rightly required to submit to the injury, unless we are hold that while robbery committed by one person is all wrong it becomes all right if the thieves axe numerous.

Six cadeta are to be expelled from West Point for hazing. Young men who indulge in sort of "fun" ara the very persons the country least needs to officer its army, except parade. Is it not about time for some indifferent operatic vocalist to canvass Wall street for a fund save Chas tine Cox from the gallows, or is beginning of the musical season too far off warrant the advertisement James Voice, an agent of Mr. Bergh, ar rcstod Owen Gsuldwell, on a otaarge of cruelty to animals, alleging that he was driving a horse that was going on three logs. The aocused pleaded not guilty the examination was adjourned.

H. is at is tha It, of of the six.