The New York herald., 1868-06-28
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY JUNE 2S sSo-rIslpLE SHEET

JUNE 2S, 1868. TRIPLE
gable purposesf million Of dollars judiclously ex
pended in dredging the Harlem river and in bastiug
| and deepening the channel at Spuyten DuyvI would
| add twenty millions OF dollars to the value OF the
shore lines. lcr.t..-r. Iaf
1t IL said the 'ar caused by the frequent passage
to and fro of the heavy engines and trains on the
| underground railroads In London IL gradually but
surely ioosening and making unsound the fOunda-
tions OF the superstructures in the vicinity, and
further that great fears beginning to be enter
tained for their safety How win this constant per-
turbaton or jar when underground railroads are
built IN this city affect the foundations OF our dwell
| ings and storesf
1t has been suggested, we suppose in imitation Of
the German singing societies. to get up one or two
grand vocal and instrumental concerts in the Park
this season. Would 1t not be worth listening to, q
concert at which in the chorus one two thousand
voices and four or i've hundred instruments "assst
edw Let it be undertaken. Wen guarantee an
audience Of hundred thousand.
Tho Chinese Legation, including his Excelency
Hon. AnsOn Burlingame Minister Plenpotentiary,
and associates Chlh ana Sum- and their secretaries,
interpreters, &c, dine to-day at the residence Of Mr.
Duncan, OF the banking firm OF Duncan. Sherman
Co. Subsequently the Legation will be driven to
Jersey City, where they will take the seven P. M.
train for Washington.
We insist that the streets are not intended for
dumping grounds for masons when they have store
or dwelling to put up or repair. We can enumerate
hundred paces-the Fifth avenue between For
teth and Fiftieth streets, as an example-where in
consequence OF the piles OF mortar, mountains OF
bricks, quarries Of stone and stacks OF lumber it is
m Tn q Wo
to know If the streets the property Of the people
or Of contractors who elect to appropriate them to
their own uses.
ST. Georges church, that hitherto respectable land
mark Of the lower and easery side OF the city, is all
but razed to the ground. Phelps Dodge Il Co. have
contracted for a splendid and capaciOus storehouse
on its site.
The fashionable congregations and pastors Of
this city to take their usual summer vacation,
and it Is said the churches will remanclosed longer
than usua-clOsed until "our sets" return to town
and "Our pastorsv have sufficently recruited from
the exhausting toll consequent on their "chargesn
during the frigd season. How is 1t that on the ap-
proach OF the warmer months Of the year the Pro-
tesant churches necesstated to ''close for re-
pairs" while the Catholic places of worship con-
tnue to rum whether it is wet or dry, hot coldp
A gentleman, the father Of two lovely daughters,
took occasion yesterday in Broadway, near Fourth
street. to horsewhip their traducer. 1t is said he
made him trOt in double-q quick time. That Ia the
way all assassns of women's reputation should be
served.
Shipbnilding s at o standstl and the sound OF
the caulkers' hammers are no longer heard on the
| sectional docks driving the oakum "home" between
the planks on the huls. II is said that since 1881
shipbuilding has never been 30 dull.
When Ia the Battery extension" to be completeds
II is now twenty years since the contractors COM
menced "enarging and improving'' that magnificent
section Of the CITY, and that half dozen acres
have been taken out Of the harbor and added to the
area of the Battery 1t looks about forlorn 1t did
two decades ago. 1t is not even 1t place for dock
rats and loafers and its ruined appearance leaves
bad impression on the minds Of strangers who pre-
viously had the pleasure OF Introduction to the
"very gentlemany gentlemen" who in tho Interests
OF emigants" benev0lently run the Castle Garden
machine.
The German singing shooting, acrobatc and other
societies are having good time Of 1t in this city.
The quantities Of lager that durnaly disappear are
beyond ordinary calculation. Figuratively speaking
1t Is about 'just about twice much as half" but
there Is strong probability OF the being greatly
increased before the festivities are through with.
General Rosecrans is quietly spoken OF as the gen.
teman who preliminary to the permanent organiza-
ed to be held at Tammany Hall on the Fourth of
July. will preside over its informal deliberations
Perhaps Ex-Governor Seymour will be made perma.
nent President.
What is greatly needed on Fifth avenue near
Fifty street is a large, cool summer theatre
for day performances. manager with the neces-
sary enterprise and capital could make fortune
there in three or four seasons, and decade hence
there will be population sufficient in the vicinity of
the house to sustain not only day byt evening per-
formances throughout the year. But what Is wanted
there at this time place for vaudeville operetta
farce, &c.-fOr nothing heavy.
The police courts are exceedingly quiet and detec-
tives are wandering round the streets listlessy
whstling the "Rogue's March," Undertakers and
doctors also complaining OF the general dulness
The Park is glorious at this time 1t Is paradise
OF quiet OF beauty, Of verdure of pastoral poetry
Of delight. Tom Moore's "vale Of Cashmere to
which "Lalah Rookhr was sent to be husbanded ia
nothing to 1t. We religiousy believe In the Park
The soldiers and sailors held private meeting at
the Astor House yesterday afternoon.
The health OF Thurlow Weed has been Indifferent
OF late. He is confined to his bed There has been
report anoat to the eject that he has been "ghty"
for some days past. This is hardly the truth. He
has experienced certain troubles of the head but It
is not of q serious chsracter-nothing that mental
rest cannot remove. Day before yesterday he over
excited himself preparatory to his leaving for Europe
In the steamer Vile de Paris, and his family physi-
clan has consequently advised him to remain quiet
for several days
A baby, the child Of vsgrants, and when, with its
parents 1t taken Friday night to the sixteenth
ward station house, It was found reduced from want
OF nourishment to . skeleton, died Of acute menin
gifts or positive starvation shortly afterwards
Pleasant this TO know that In city wealthy babes
are permitted to die, not from ordinary causes but
from want Of food.
Those nre escapes attached to tenement houses
are funny contrivances. They win prove In the
event Of q connagration Of about e. much use to
frightened tenants-particuarly TO very old people
and little children-as an extra caudai sppendsgc to