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ARTICLE VI.
EDUCATION.

Sec. l. The principal of all funds arising
from the sale or other disposition of lands and
property, granted or intrusted to the state for
educational or religious purposes, shall for
and the income therefrom shall be faithfully
applied to, the specific objects of the original
grants and trusts.
SIC. q The general assembly shall make
such provision, by taxation or otherwise, as,
with the income arising from the school trust
fund, will secure q thorough and efficient sys-
TEN of common schools throughout the state.
No religious or other sect shall ever have ex-
elusive right to. or control of any part of the
school funds of the state.
SEC. 3. Women, having such qualifications
as to age, citizenship and residence as may be
prescribed for electors, shall be eligible to any
Office under the school laws, except that Of
state commissioner of common schools.
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90 ARTICLE v.
ELECTIYE FRANCHISE.

SEC. l. Every male citizen of the United
States, of the age of .twenty.one years, who
shall have been resident of the state one year
next preceding the election, and of the county,
township or ward in which he resides such
time as may be provided by law, shall have
the qualifications of an elector, and be enti-
tied to vote at all elections. ac 3a o!lt d
SEC. q, No idiot, or insane person. shall be
entitled to the privileges of an elector.
SEC. 8. The general assembly shall have
power to exclude from the privilege of voting,
or being eligible to office, any person convicted
of bribery, perjury or other infamous crime.
Sec. 4. All elections shall be by ballot.
SEC. s.. Electors, during their attendance ut
elections. and in going to and returning
therefrom, shall be privileged from arrest in
all cases. except treason, felony and breach OF
the peace. 1ipFitg iod - 'TU
SEC. 6. No person shall be deemed to haye
gained or lost his residence as an elector by
reason Of his presence or absence in the service
of the United States, or in the navigation OF
the high seas ,oriwaters of the United States,
or by reason of his presence or absence for any
temporary purpose.
SEC. Z. Every elector in the actual military
service of the United States, or of this state,
and not in the regular army. may exercise the
right of suffrage, at such place and under such
regulations as may be prescribed bylaw.
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DUDLEY W. RHODES. Secretayy..

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ARTICLE XIV.

LEGISLATIVE APP0RTIONMENT AND REP
ST t. sd RESERVATION. Vi s5,s.,a0lg
SEC. l. The spportionment for members of
the general assembly shall be made every
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PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

SIC, /. Institutions for the benefit of the
insane, both durable and incurable, the blind
and the deaf and dumb, shall always be sup
ported by the state.
SEC. 2. An asylum for idiotic and imbecile
youth. home for soldiers and sailors or
phans and a girls industrial home shall be
supported as long as the general assembly may
deem them necessary.
SIC. 3. The punitive and reformatory in
stitutions for the state shall be reform school
for boys, house Of discipline and peniten-
tiary.
SEC. 4. All public institutions shall be sub
iect to such regulations as may be prescribed
by law
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PROPOSITION NUMBER 0NE-MIN0RITY
7sm .Ir REPRESENTATIONS s,9oa-7

.sIn every election for judges of the supreme
be chosen Of the same court, and for the same
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term of service, no ..electorl shall vote for a
greater number of candidates than q majority
of the judges of such court and term then to be
chosen"
If this proposition be adopted, it shall take
the place of section three of article four Of this
constitution, and section twenty of said article
shall thereupon read as follows
SEC. 20. In case the office of any judge
shall become vacant before the expiration of
the regular term for which he was elected, the
vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the
governor until a successor is elected and quail
flied: and such successor shall be elected for
the unexpired term, at the first election for
governor that occurs more than thirty days
after the vacancy shall have happened.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06
The winters Charity.

The large increase in the number of dodgers
at police stations indicates the growth of des-
titution as the winter advances. The captains
of the several precincts have pursued the
work of wedding out from these unfortunates
the Irregular lodgers," who are properly
treated as vagrants and consigned to the care
Of the Department Of Charities and Correc-
ton, where wholesome discipline may cure
them of the habit of living on the public.
The success attending the action of the cap
tains in this matter proves that the distribu-
ton Of food to the poor during the winter, if
placed under the supervision Of the police,
will be sufficiently protected against those
abuses to which some charitable persons be-
ieve the soup house system is liable. But
after the chronic lodger has been disposed of
there remains an army Of homeless, shiver-
ing creatures stretched on the station
house boards to remind us that the
tales Of misery and want that reach
our ears are not exaggerated. The ques-
ton is, What shall we do to relieve these
unfortunates? The people of New York are
kind hearted and liberal. They will give
with generous hand to the deserving poor
But an organization and q system are neces-
sary in order that the money donated may be
used with the best effect and NAV be devoted
The New York herald., 1874-12-06
Pulpit Topics To-Day.

Religion is represented by our ecclesiastical
teachers as the chiefest thing for which the
human soul hungers. But we have seen sam
Piles OF it which we would not take upon any
terms and that we would not keep were it left
to us by Inheritance Such gloom and sorrow
as sometimes hang over Christian hearts arls-
ing out of their religious conceptions is
enough to scare the ungodly wholly away
from the Church and from Christ. Mr..
Ager has, therefore, chosen for himself to-
day very pertinent theme in contrasting
cheerful religion with gloomy one. If men
are to take religion into common life, as Mr..
Morgan believes they should, it must be the
cheerful kind. But this can be obtained only
by waiting on God and trusting the unchang-
ing Christ, as Mr.. Hawthorne will demon
strate to-day. OF course the character of
o mans religion will depend greatly on
his temperament, but formularies of Chris
tian faith have also much to do with it,
so that it becomes a matter Of importance to
every man how he believes and what, as Mr..
Hepworth will make apparent Mr.. Kennard
maintains that the Scriptures are our only
standard OF faith, Notwithstanding that from
them have come the multitudinous creeds and
expressions of faith throughout Christendom.
But better their multiplication thousand
fold than that the faith of humanity should
be cut after one pattern. Every creed and
form Of faith gathered from the Scriptures
has some portion Of divine truth in it which
supplies a want in human experience, and it
is therefore accepted by men. When it fails
to meet such want it will be discarded.
The death of Mayor Havemeyer hos sug-
eested to DIR. Fulton theme for his consider
alton, and from which he may draw some use
full lessons. At the same time Mr.. Terry will
discuss death philosophically and tell us
what it is to die. Sunday amusements, now
becoming SO popular, will be considered by
Mr.. McClelland, Mr.. Phelps, and DR.. Porteous
in one aspect or another. DIR. Miller will tell
the churches burdened with debts-and Nsnse
The New York herald., 1874-12-06
The city Finances.

The Comptroller has published statement
Of the city finances from January to Novem-
Der 80 Of the present year. By this exhibit it
is made to appear that the gross city debt at
the latter date, SO far as represented by stocks
and bonds, was in round numbers one hundred
and forty-eight million dollars. This does
not include any of the outstanding debts owed
by the city, or any claims, valid or invalid,
that may exist against the public treasury.
From the fact that some ten or twelve million
dollars are involved in pending suits against
the Corporation it may well be calculated
that the city owes, besides its bonded and
funded debt. at least twenty-five million
dollars. This increases the amount Of public
Indebtedness to one hundred and seventy
three million dollars. But these figures arc
only estimated. The practice has prevailed
in the Finance Department of delaying the
issue of warrants drawn for the payment of
bonds falling due Immediately before debt
statement until after the statement has
been made, and of crediting them as
actually paid 1t is asserted by those famil-
lar with the Comptrollers accounts that
the bonded debt on November 80 is made to
appear two or three million dollars less than
it actually is by resort to this policy. How
ever this may be it is certain that the financial
exhibits of the Comptroller do not command
public confidence, and the notorious fact that
they are all silent in regard to our floating
debt warrants the assertion that they do not
faithfully represent the actual financial con-
dition Of the city. II is very desirable that
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

the citizens of New York should understand
exactly what they owe and what means they
possess of paying their debt, and on this ac-
count thorough investigation of the FL
nance Department should be no longer de-
layed
The statement just issued represents that
bonds shave been paid off, in 1874 to the
amount of s29, GAG, 816. This is calculated to
mislead. if not designed to deceive, the
citizens of New York. Exclusive of revenue
bonds, which are simply issued in advance OF
taxation to meet current expenses and are
taken up as soon as the taxes come in, not
more than two million dollars of this amount
has been ''paid Off" The balance of nearly
twenty million dollars has been renewed and
not 'paid off, at all. In short, the statement is
deceptive throughout and its publication
proves the necessity for the prompt restora-
tion to Office Of the old Commissioners of Ac-
counts, in order that o thorough investigation
of our financial condition may be made by
competent parties. This necessity is the
more urgent since report is current that the
new Commissioners Of Accounts are urged to
make hasty report in regard to the Finance
Department prepared for them by the Comp
troller.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06
Mayor Havemeyer's Funeral.

As the late Mr.. Havemeyer was the first
Mayor of New York who died in Office his
funeral was an event as imposing as it was
unprecedented. The manner of his death was
also unusual, and, SO lar as the effect upon the
public was concerned, dramatic There was
no warning, but in moment. even at the time
that he was being prosecuted in court, he was
smitten by the hand of Providence Men of
different parties were wroth with him, his ad-
ministration had been censured, and even his
removal had been recently asked for from the
Governor. Suddenly the man who was the
central figure Of all this conflict fell and the
battle fell with him. There is something i'm
pressively solemn in this hush after the storm,
the instant vanishing of passions in the pres
ence Of death.
Yesterday this magistrate Of the metropolis,
who died literally in the performance of his
official duties, was carried to the grave amid
the sorrows of all our citizens. Of the cere-
monies at his late residence and at the Church
OF st. Paul's, of the funeral procession through
the heart Of the city, in which oil the govern
ment departments the commercial associa-
tions and the military were represented, and
in which many of our best citizens took q
leading part we publish complete ac-
count elsewhere. With solemn music and
draped flags, before thousands of people
crowding the streets, his remains were borne
to Greenwood Cemetery. What o contrast
between the living and the dead What q
change in one brief week! The moral is not
hard to read, and it is one which all our pub
lie servants might proftably study. William
F. Havemeyer was thus honored not merely
because he had been Mayor, but because he
had been upright in the discharge Of his
duties This single virtue Of incorruptible
honesty in the eyes of the people redeemed
oil his faults.
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grace of the Tammany Ring and the direct
appointment of Richard B. Connolly TO do
what he pleases with New York? If he we're a
Napoleon, who would make tho city marble
out of brick, it would be bad enough. But he
is only dull, stubborn, obstinate, purblind,
thoroughly incapable man, who neither knows
nor appreciates the needs of New York, and
of whom Mr.. Dana keenly said, "if he does
not 60 as rapidly as Connolly and Tweed in
the road of debt piling he goes quite as
sure" Mr.. Green is unfit to be Comptroller.
The Office is an outrage upon q republican
form of government Let Mr.. Green be re-
moved and the Office pared of its imperial
functions, and we shall believe that Mr.. Tilden
and Mr. Wickham mean to fulfil their pledges.
The Comptrollership is the first rock ahead OF
the new administration.
We are anxious to support Mr. Wickham,
to give him every chance in his new office, to
encourage him to make his Mayoralty sue
cess We are just as anxious for that success
as he can possibly be himself. Success means
ment to New York. and that is what we crave.
Moreover, in the trying moments which well
come him into Office he is surrounded by re-
sponsibilities which he cannot avoid and
which will either make or mar him. He can
either be one of the best or worst Of Mayors.
Fate leaves him no middle ground of COM
Portable mediocrity. Let him think of his
predecessor, who twenty-five years ago, in
the good old quiet times, was most accept
able Chief Magistrate, but who, falling upon
evil times, became what he became. There
are two things which Mr. Wickham must
esteem as the loadstars of his admins
tration, and which he must follow as
religiously as the mariner follows the
peace, and these are ''rapid transit and ire
generated New York" Let him give u3 q
city worthy to be metropolis and queen Of this
mighty Continent-a city with avenues, boule-
wards, parks, piers. bridges and wharves, and
not mass OF shambling houses, bordering on
unseemly dangerous bitches. More than all,
let us cease the policy Of banishing our citi-
zens to New Jersey and Long Island. Let us
have the rapid transit that will enable the
laborer to 60 from the Battery to New Ro-
chelle or Yonlers in half hour. Let him do
this, and, politically speaking, he may add
indefinitely to his highest hopes, and when
the time comes again to name the Governor of
our Commonwealth New York will insist that
the magistrate who regenerated the metropolis
is worthy of that and even of higher honors.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

An ELECTION BLUNDEa the county Of
Sullivan nearly four thousand votes were cast
for Judge Miller, the democratic candidate for
the Court of Appeals, with the Endorsement
'For Judge of the Court Of Appeals" The
constitutional title Of the Office is Associate
Judge of the Court of Appeals" and the de-
fective votes were rejected by the State can
vassers on the ground that "no such Office as
Judge Of the Court of Appeals is known to the
constitution" The error did not affect the
result Judge Millers plurality over his re-
publican competitor, Judge johnson, being
nearly forty-six thousand without the defec-
tive votes. But in O close contest such q
blunder might have cost judge his Office and
reversed the will Of the electors
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

wholly to the object for which II Is given. For
this reason we have urged the formation OF
commission of temporary relief, composed Of
citizens whose names are we'll known in tho
community, and to whom the management Of
q charitable fund during the winter months
may be advantageously intrusted. 1t Is un-
wise to postpone an organized movement OF
tins Importance until the suferings OF the
destitute become unbearable and force them
selves on public notice. It should be made at
once
The permanent charities of the city arc
dong their share of good in their own way.
One OF the most extensive of these institutions
has placed Its annual report before the pub
lie at this time with q view, no doubt of aid
ing Its treasury and enlarging its opportuni-
ties to perform its work. Its emigration sys-
tenn, its Sunday meetings, its night schools,
it's "Sick Children's Fund" which 'blesses
some fourteen hundred children; !" its s.Flower
Mission" which 'tscatters its sweet tokens
among several hundreds" and its Country
Home" are excellent in their way and produo-
tive of a vast amount of good. 1t is, there
fore, gratifying to learn that the institution
has balance on hand, and that its real estate
is worth two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, its personal property one hundred and
fifty thousand, and that it has received from
the city and county of New York dur
ing the present year over ninety-three
thousand dollars of the public money.
The Republic some days ago took exceptions to
the payment Of over fifty thousand dollars for
salaries and rent out of one item of seventy
thousand dollars expended for industrial
schools; but the permanent charities ara
saddled with heavy expenses, consequent upon
the establishments they have to maintain and
the extent of their operations. They do not,
however, meet the necessities of season Of
extreme suffering caused by want of employ
ment, scarcity of money and severe weather.
1t is for the emergency OF hard winter wo
are now called upon to provide. We must
have some means Of giving food Immediately
to the starving and warmth to those who may
be perishing Of cold In such case we need
no expensive organization, no salaried ofh-
Gals, no large rent charges. What is required
is some plan by which instant and effective
relief can be extended to the destitute, and by
which every dollar received for charity can be
sacredly devoted to charity.
We cannot too soon consider the question
how we can best provide for the wants
of the thousands who ore in our midst
without work, without food, and driven to
the station house night after night for shelter
and rest Their number seems to be increas-
ing. We may be visited by severe weather at
any moment While every sensible person
would deplore the encouragement Of vagrancy
and pauperism Christian people cannot
close their eyes to the sufferings and their
ears to the appeals of the destitute. A move
ment toward organization cannot be made
too soon for, as contemporary says, "what
we really need in this city is some concerted
action and Capitalization of authority in the
distribution Of money intended for the suf-
fering poor"
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

CONCERNING ''FAREwELLs. "A weekly Jour-
nal publishes letter from Charlotte Cush-
man "to gentleman in this city," Miss Cush-
man says: FIN answer to your inquiries 1
can only say that am acting a series Of en-
gagements in the different cities which will
probably be the last of my dramatic appear
ances; but with regard to the place where I
shall take my final farewell, or whether shall
take any farewell anywhere, it is impossible for
me to say" 1t is not possible this letter
can intimate that Miss Cushman intends to
play another farewell engagement in New
York
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

A PEDESTRIAN FEAT.-To-morrow Mr.. Judd
will make the difficult effort to walk five hun
dred miles in six days and q half, under con-
ditions which are elsewhere explained. Mr..
Judd is well known pedestrian, and his
judgment in not attempting to rival Mr..
Weston's failure to accomplish the same dis
tance is good. We trust he will walk into the
favor of the public
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

PRESIDENT MAcMAHoN's HIT.-President
MacMahon has made hit with his Message.
He has managed to make the radicals believe
that his position is adverse to the legitmists,
and to create the impression among the legit-
imists that he is against the radicals. Mean
while be has contrived to 'favorably impress
the public generally" The old soldier is
shrewd politician after all, or he has capable
advisers
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

The REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,
assembling in Washington, are sorely perplexed
with the political situation. They appear to
think that the President is responsible for
their late defeats, while the President holds
that Congress has been the deadweight upon
the party. As between Congress and the
administration, however, the people have held
them to be as six for one to half dozen for
the other
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

OuR LITERARY DEPARTMENT to-day will bd
found very interesting. 1t includes an analy-
tic review Of the life Of Rear Admiral Foots
and recapitulatons of various other matters
of fresh literary interest and value.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

nre too many such-how to pay them, and
DR.. Britain will talk to such fashionable and
speculative lunatics as may gather to hear him
on those topics.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06
GU ADRUPLE SHEET.
New York, Sunday, Dec. 6, 1874.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the soedther today ,cN be oggy, clearing
up later.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were gen.
orally steady. Gold sold at 111s 1113,
closing, however, at the former price. Money
on call loans commanded and per cent
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

GLOBE THEATRE
Broadway-vARIETY. al T. NJ closes at 10 80 r. NJ
Miss Je nne Hughex
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.-THE GRAND
DUCHESS at =. NJ. closes at l0:i5 r. NJ. Miss Emily
sOdene
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No 535 5Broadway.-VARIETY, at p n. closes at 10 3
The New York herald., 1874-12-06
PARK THEATRE,

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
Twenty third street and Eighth avenue-THE BLACK
CROOK, at 8 p. NJ. closes at ii r. NJ
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

WOODS MUSEUM,
Broadway, corner OF Thirtieth street-THE TICKET
DF-LEAvE MAN, at2 p N. THE ORGAN MAN, at
+. N. closes at ~ rs p. NJ Mr.. Dominick Murray.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No GA 4Broadway.-VARIETY, ats r. NJ closes at 10 IL
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

THEATRE,
roadway. between Twenty first and Twentv.second
tree esGILDED AGE, at +. NJ. closes ~ 10 30 T. H.
". John 4. Raymond
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

THEATRE COMIQUE.
No Ola 4Broadway.-vARIETY at sP ~. closes at l0.SO
Pm.
The New York herald., 1874-12-06

BOOTHS THEATRE,
corner Twenty third street and Sixth avenue.-RED
TAPE and He WID1N HUNT. at 3 p. n. closes st
10:40 r. NJ. Mr. John ) Clarke