New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-03

better still, boxes of paper money can be set
nm at the cross roads and in other public
places, and permission given to every voter
to help himself to as much cheap money as
he may need.
We print to-day full report of an address
delivered at New-Haven yesterday by the
Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon. This gentleman Is
well known as able theologian, a close
thinker, and leading divine In the Congre-
gational Church. He was the presiding officer
of the Council which was held in Brooklyn
last week. His views on the general subject
of Congregational polity, and specially on the
doings and results of the Council, carry great
weight with them. The statement OF the
learned lecturer is certainly one of notable
compactness aud clearness. II will repay
careful perusal by those who desire carefully
prepared and mature opinions on this subject.
It is said Of one of the witnesses in the Dis
trict of Columbia investigation, yesterday, that
he was troublesome" That is exactly the
impression that tho impartial reader gets of
nearly all the witnesses. They may be DESTROYS
of telling the whole honest truth. But
one cannot help thinking that there
is constant ana persistent effort
! to huddle something out of sight. Mr.. Strong
was late in coming before the Committee; he
was reluctant to say anything when he got
| there, and he remembers next to nothing.
| But nearly every witness who should be pre-
sumed to know something about the opera
tons of the Ring has had the same symptoms
of mental paralysis.
In our Albany correspondence may be found
| an abstract of the bill to vest the appointment
of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
in the Board of Regents. This measure seems
to us highly eommendable. 1t passed the
| Senate yesterday by large majority, and
| will doubtless become law. A change Is
| also made in the manner of appointing the
| Regents themselves. They are to be named
by the Governor, and hold office for six years.
The members of the Board, as now consti-
tuted, are to classify themselves into SETS to
hold Office for terms of from one to six years.
| The object of the bill is to remove the edu-
cational interests of the State as far as posi-
bic from the influence of political partisan
ship.
Within less than week Mr.. Proctor is to
leave this country, and the lecture which we
report this morning, is the first of a
brief series with which he closes his stay
among us. He gives in this lecture brief
review of the mode in which the earth was
formed; the slow processes by which it be-
came gradually fitted for mans existence, and
the parallel between these processes and those
| which we recognize in far distant Orbs. There
Is little in this review to which any student
of astronomical science will take exception.
| But in his description of the probable future
| of our planet ne attacks a view which has
had widespread acceptance He does not
think that there is a prospect OF the earth's
becoming a cherries barren rock like the
moon, destitute as is that luminary OF water
and atmosphere. He thinks that long before
any astronomical changes shall have destroyed
the Availability of the earth, the necessities
! of = man will have used up the mineral
resources on which he is now so largely
DEPENDENT and hence that the future of the
race is less promising than that of the globe.
Perhaps coming ages may look back on the
present as the happiest in earths history.
| It is reported in Albany that in case the
! Fourth and Third Avenue Rapid Transit bills
| are pressed further at this session, they will
| be so modified as to avoid the objections to
| their running through Park-rOw in front of
the CITY Hall and new Post Office, and across
the lower end of the Park between the two.
The new proposition is understood to be to
make the terminus of both roads and the pas
senger depot at the corner of Chatham and
|
error in the scheme. 1t is clearly the best
point for the downtown terminus of these
roads. 1t avoids increasing the congestion Fat
the lower end of Park-row, saves the City
Hall Park and the public buildings, is prac-
tcally as convenient to Broadway, and on all
accounts seems preferable to any other point
on the East side If the Fourth Avenue
bin could be further modified to prevent the
running of the horse railroad track over Park
Avenue, and to avoid the unlimited grant of
control over the parks in its way the meas
ure would then be in such a shape that those
who are anxious for any form Of rapid transit
would be willing to waive minor objections,
| and be glad to see Commodore Vanderbilt,
after filing proper and heavy bonds, under
take the work as rapidly as possible. In any
| case, we insist that the sudden prominence
given to the Third and Fourth Avenue bills
shall not preclude fair considerationlof Others
and an honest effort to make some practical
step during this session toward the rapid
transit which the city vitality needs and must
have.
| DON'T HURT TIE PARTY
1t is not difficult to understand the feeling
| of devotion which some Of the purest patriots