New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-15

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sa;t;or. which have proceeded from the Repub-
lean aide of the Assembly since tho resigna-
ton of M. Theirs.
semi-official dispatch from Washington,
the other day, corrected with much show Oh
dignity the report that the Indian Peace Coin-
mission had resigned. 1t was to be at once
reoreapized. A majority of the Commissioners
had resigned at that time however and now
another member--Mr. Thos. c. Jones-has
sent in his resignation. So has Mr. Cree, the
Secretary, and the Committees have also dis-
solved. Really, 1t is not worth whiie 10 az
tempt to save the remnants OF the CommiS.
sion, if there are any. Senator ingaiis VI
Kansas is about to move for an Official clear
ing out of the whole affair. Like the Civh
Service Reform, this Commission has been
very much in the way OF the jobbers and
hangers-on. 1t run well for season, but the
thieves hindered it,
Some time ago. Mr.. Gladstone, in making
motion that the British House of Com
mons adjourn over "Derby Day." de-
scribed the race for the Derby stakes
as a noble. manly, distinguished, and his
torcal national sport. He may have erred
in attributing to it the high qualities of
nobleness and manliness, and any one who
reads the London letter, published on our
first and second pages, will probably think
that he was mistaken. But there is just as
little doubt that it has acquired the distlnc-
ton of an English national sport. 1t will be
matter of interest to learn how far other
countries are indebted to England for their
practices in regard to this pastime. On this
point the Paris letter and the account OF the
Jerome Park races, given on our second page,
will assist in forming o conclusion
| Congress seems to be under the delusiOn
that it is expected to do something to re
"lieye the present distress" "kindle up the
" fires" and get the kettle boiling once more
For this reason, we presume, the House has
rejected the last Initiation scheme, and both
Houses have joined in appointing new COM
mittee to put together another nOndescript
bill to throw the banking system into confu-
sion and initiate the currency by way of prep
aration for specie payments. We can assure
our Senators and Representatives that nothing
whatever is expected of them by any
class of the community. and that the best
thing they can do is to go to their respective
| MONIES anu TeSU VHcIliSclNtS ho PhA'"eV S'o'
zens they may be of some use, but as a
Congress they have proved complete fall
ure. Six months of them is enough, and we
are glad that their sands will run out three
months after the beginning of their next
session in December.
AS the winner in last years college regatta
Yale is first entitled to description OF what
she is doing for the contest at Saratoga. 1t
is evident from the letter which we publish
on our third page that the fruits of victory have
been carefully garnered, and the New-liaven
boys may be expected to make as hard a
struggle to keep and add to their laurels as
they did to win them. The crew are de-
scribed as a strong -limbed lot of young giants,
carefully selected with a view to capacity for
the strain of the new method of rowing,
which calls more than the old for strength in
LON and calf, and less comparatively for
: biceps and pectOral muscles. The feature
which will, however, strike the general
reader as most noteworthy is that this entire
crew, selected from hundreds of youths of the
utmost variety as to early history. are every
one of them farmers brought up to hard
; labor on the soil. The fact is worth an ocean
: of theory in proving conclusivey the superb
,, ority of farmers life for evolving the
highest types of physical development.
, The system of teaching drawing adopted in
the Massachusetts public schools appears to
have met with noteworthy success. In the
remarkable number and high class of drawings
presented at the exhibition described by our
correspondent on the third page, there seems
to be evidence that drawing can be univer-
sally taught as readily as arithmetic or gram
mar. More remarkable still are the numbers
of meritorious original designs furnished by
the pupils, indicating that the power to pro-
duce such works is not confined in a cOmmu-
nifty to a select few of special genius. The
art thus acquired is not at all mere accom-
plishment, but well-develOped capacity for
kind of work of high value in mechanical
pursuits, for which, as is well known, we have
largely been hitherto dependent upon foreign
artists. 1t is high time to take up in other
States this system in which Massachusetts
has obtained so notable a lead, and we
shall be glad to hear of some active endeavOr
elsewhere to secure its benefits, since it must
largely add to the resources and ultimately to
the wealth of the communities where it is
put into successful practice.