The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1869, Page 8

3 stamble over Harcourt, aged, 160 iba. Q, C., CITY POLITICS. ‘Stchongy of hs emunisiratc yeeetem’ 2; | Sesueis ying ‘tsviabls caster fan THE TURF IN ENGLAND. ea welleapporied wi : ne : rest, Fae wold Uy | fen prevernacarally reddened aid . ee teamaieh get, 48 oes hae io the of procession. At | indignation, become, for the time belt ‘Training Operations—The Turf Reforme= | 19.) 135. Genera} Grant and the Oflco-Seckers of the iin Cedar” street; streets ‘the driver | tragic caricatures of the human face divine; mporting and Public Feeling—The Spring | "there is for the Lincoinsmure Ouy—The Omices to be Filled and the Can- Eid Darmacie.therot the American Express ee ye eo Handicape—Scratching of Blue Gown for the Handicap, “witeh has bf Inve years becomes. Te- — oe Dae the dou alc sblecied 19 Prequossce: | aitesr will animate countenances of the Younger | Chester Cup—Betting on the Great Evente | Markably popular race, sapeeiily wil Nemmeeel, didates—A Nice Arrangement, oe ore at roaten- | portion of the lady nders, ways ‘sure = © toe Millan a yey. prio ‘ne utenaeexstoment which was crea tn tho | sue mholaale frau ote ‘iamipled to top nits. Be'more ri dome calming that they have paid | tlve ‘Table of Entries and rea ates ayees, tive years, oF Ibs, " Acceptancee= | “ republican camp a few days ago by the short visit of | be found a record of services Fp ao lated Re ares ‘about change. Youmay | Death ef Mr. John Jackson—His Character | the first seemed to have a remakably good chance, the President clect to this city has not yet wholly | te an official to appreciative ae ey ae one ete ts mo cortainy of perp iad, and still holds the position of first favorite, subsided. It has, however, taken a somewhat dier- | ABdidateloromec, | | . iit to dis- | your expected destination anywhere near the ex: Accessions to the Turf. she hag somewhat declined, being now guoted ania ‘The hopes and th that Mr, Kelly will, be permitted | charge him. Now this man not only committed a | pected time, Dut the demand ‘or fare is always sure Loxpon, Jan, 80, 1869. | to 1. ete ; ent complexion. pes and fears, the expecta- | It is understood elly y be tly made. made a marked advance to'l5 to 1: but Lady Coven- tions and the doubts, which obtraded themselves on | to relieve himself for a time from the cares and | misdemeanor, but did not have any respect for the promp' Mee hacawandne voll, | Aftera few days of tolerably hard frost, which try, four 10. Ibg., has been 8 good deat minds of even the most sanguine claimants are on ra of the postmasiers! ‘There are several | dead. Probably if he had been the driver of an ash Surgit amarl ahquid—the toll, covered the ponds even in the south of England with | knocked ‘though she is now at 20tol. The the minds candidates of course for the post, among whom | cart or a junk wagon he would have been fined ten ation is raised b: coating of ice and put a stop to the efi dae has been taken about Typh four the increase as the time fleets past and the great and | the usual amount of Hon prevails. In the | aollars; but, being in the employ of the American | And what a how! of indignation jt rend by way, P preparation of | sai Piyrie Talam, three years, 84 Ibs., and t day of inauguration rapidly approaches. | fulness of time all the ins that are to be ousted | E Com ‘he had the right ran over « | when the cars, striving to mi: horses for thelr early engagements at most of the | 70d", three 79 lbs, ‘Van Amb five saa vaewoe of GAniunt Gniiee alan tik aeneemee wl be Gane Sa See Pea sepan aah | Parton ties cat no ea kael Hem reaae cae | | dewbennt rays, choked turnpikes and awhirt | training quarters, the weather is once more open, | Senaidistony thre yim Ot Oey utishyy ie Ust ol anything else and go scot ¢ the office seekers seized with avidity and followed | rejoicing will prevail t the land. reat prevalence of crime in this eity is not caused get blocked, as they frequently do. The sound of | Mulld and spring-like, The seasons here have altered pp Oa EDM nae ord tin = up wish ali the BRESRGE 6 ene Dieeee Sel | whore are toe nce pickings atfacned to tata omoe | Somueh Oy te ineticieney of the police as by the | rearing voles, outside lv fur trom agrocable, Af | somateraly of iste years that tt will cause no #Ur- | ofthelpaat weak ta that Mr Merty’s “crack,” Balla track of prey. Any man of other than an “uncon | anq'“the chances are i wil be given to some | when brought before them, foria wan snot held | "from noon till three and four o'clock lady shop- jem ypale gpilncadetnins Siahagy tcarepingpeiars paar dram, as alee from his high state and hae q@itiona! surrender” stamp would not have ventured | one outside the legal » General Dix was | responsible for a minor offence the law one rs make 0 consbiaganie share of the car riders, part ite to his Fivi ‘Gomez. It will be remembered among the pack of hungry, ravenous expectants | the last occupant in-chief of the post, his deputy, | committing a grave offence has the right to expect ris grotesquely ami to wee the alrs of discon- | iems, and it need scarcely be said that the pros- Pe Se of the autumn he was the ob- i » Franklin, acting as locum tenens since | to be dealt with leniently. KR. RYNDERS, tent and dis) some of these ladies put on. Their pect is welcome to all who interested in the ‘that are clamorous for office in this city; but General , ‘and very are ject of flerce even in spite of his gallant } Cat genenan’s. ApoE. Re Sime: 3 Patrolman Fifteenth precinct. | aristocratic instinets and noses bristle Migely Att | turf, In the meantime, at least, the work of train- | achievements of the ‘provions months; and thas it Grant knew bis own power and endurance and | France. The most prominently spoken of it in turn up disdainfauy at their compulsory contact » at leant, the wi pope ny pellet of a certain section coolly submitted to the ordeal, The leaders of the | otner than Spencer, aud, Cochrane circles Is Mr | mAgsE WHO RIDE IN CITY CARS, "| Wit *Re dem@cratio element so prevalent in these | ing te being carried on most vigorously, and theres | ofcurftes that he nad turned roarer. “Late running two radical wings of republicans who are laying | ing one of the western districts of this’ State, and pOSR LE. PiHow horrid it smells says one. - re cece oun | eee ute Soporte, up bee beaker Oe eam to the federal offices to be filled | who clatms to be supported by all the influence ofthe | wi. piorent Ch ot Panna Patrons | _“Diszusting,” says a companion, for they gene- | lange fields at the post, particularly of two year olds. fn Oe ren ers here no sooner became aware of the Presi-»| Tepublican members of the House of Representa i? mii naere rally travel 1 companies of two and three and | It is very probable, as J hinted last week, that | Vo sformerion loads me to elleve that the horse dent clect’s arrival than they immediately | “gs: izing Our City Rallroade—Flood and Ebb of | more. tie | Whether the period for the first appearances of | jg ‘well and has no tendency to “piping,” Mr, George W. Blunt 1s also a pow. | the Great Tide of Travel—A Compact Sea | “It always makes me sick to travel in these vile | + 11 cuters ne hereafter made the of May | but there's ‘who will always believe anuvthing eet ae ee eae eae pat he Wil | of Human Freight and Ite Inlet and Outlet. | CS” #475 a thinds |e ao ana give ua more Trike taciaae Chun te ball have uo racte | bad.of Mir. Merry's winter fuvorites for the Derby —— ee wh ba densest, - eat py ce giup to ao ‘their Dest ‘in a is s favor, OF Ladin yin et | Onrelty cars are the dally receptacles of every | gir,” the liad jay asks the conductor, who politely | gpring two year old eventa, and accordingly no Soeee car oo ya given Bnd s. 4 uneir track ve an oD | class aract 4 lies wi e h- Spencer—the “out-and-oaer” of the radiesl camp— | League Club altogether in the rear. See putt Ceoscahed te tes wa at TaSan oa'| sans wae done. Wa exclaims an elderiy | ¢f0rt willbe spared to ‘make hay whe the sun | to 1 18 booked~tnough the prloe, is always fort Charley, the irrepressible, full of wind and bombast, A NICE LITTLE ARRANGEMENT. iP PROD DAE E00 gentleman with visions of rheumausm and neuralgia | shines.” ‘The resolutions of Sir Joseph Hawley, | of ting beth, for wihi the week mt least « hardly as mach ballast as enables him to The ex made in the HERALD of Saturday of | ture in almost every possible phase of its curtously | rising in perspective before him. “We can’t stand | Gojonel Forester and Lord Coventry, which I dis- 21 ve ben entrusted to lim at 7 to 1, and thre pe ioe speabap er one pack of the repudli- Setuaniy cakes ietwoon Tonmany aid. the Pineeee derslonmene | Cont (i ofa ecient of el Ca ameter ent ee fade mem cussed a week ago, have not since then excited | best offer against him is now 100 to 15. “thus Is tanbonde, ‘charley has nis eve on tue Cnited States | Fepublicans of this ty, ts sulla matier under | @€tms, as the clty cars are, of locomotion, they have | fair perrumed handxerenicts and sinelliug bottles. | much attention or comment, the acceptances for the | iso making his way upwards in the quotatious, and Dastrict Attorneyship, snd, notwithstanding his | Sytht“agontion “thee eatie to ee eee etre ee te sty cat | tt bE ten ep wigan Feached | great handicaps proving for the time more interest- | 1 need not refer to the ‘who figure in tlie list, Joud-montted SAanIne At Sl Sa Dee Sone Rie te ae eee am hon ere 1 ae and ia ben wut Goatiioe’ aietelecesie saute se lawyers, bank clerks, Peres a neon eee ‘and bee firvsurch ta insti bacsatod ieee’ tetets ton Manding the eretchea. for Te. ssliomed: dunner the ° sais boasting ” ; WO ruling com- id oth col Ye asBoct affairs; season, agai in he COON ie eal ras os Seog desc bine to Plunder and divide there woul be no hope | underground roads or some mode of speedier travel government Clarks and all classes who thus early great petorian of wien fre has been given are psalms oe wrt he rit TOROS PE Ulysses” are on —_ a of redemption, for it would be the commingling of | ig devised—a result which the progressive spirit of | finish up their day’s work once more turn thelr f the Jockey Ciub | As to the Two Thousand Guineas (or which, itmust friendship, and that “I cam have anything | two torrents that would sweep the last penis Of | ine th ‘and the imperative demand of our rapidly | £ce8 homeward. Gradually the returning tide in- | brought under the consideration o! Jockey Ctul beremetbered, Pero Gomes is not entered), ali Ineed 1 want for the asking of it,” he was | Protection from the people. It is therefore to be Bee eee P creases. Pretty soon come the shay rig and then | they will have assumed an importance such as no is that when Belladrum declined in the Derby fan to have recourse to a petition in praying bis | ti that the antagonistic elements of the two Par. | increasing population wil certainly accomplish be- | ihe mechanics. From ive to seven PM. tne careare | auostion of the Kind has attained for many years, | beting, Wild Oats “‘came” with a rushaund 6 10 2 riend Ulysses” to remember him for that District datacenter ae pean senly aeonaat natural | fore long. For the present our city cars are indis- ied to sels memaraennnetys pbb platforms, | Everything in the late history of the turf has paved | Was booked about im, though 9 to 4 was refused. Atworneysaip. Charley is some pumpKins in the way ot big talk; DWE aS That is @ quailty not overesteemed by Utysses the Stent, it were better for him if he had less lo say. © Ww to speak and slow to speed” may be a Waxim which Chariey long ago learned to upply; but i ts omen the fave of men to be beaten wilh their OWR Weapons, the tactics by which they succeeded for a tme may lead to their fudi overtarow, There are too ea A, a hia iB the Heid anxious for office for the lent cvoct lo make @ choice just Bow or to be cajoled by biatant Would-be orators of the John Cochrane and mpencer ay rol. or hungry iievess left and made no sign. Mr. we Calitenden, when that gentieman ond ny i. — poser brne Peedi see ulm, oat “he want ap) retary of state,’ General Grant said, “Well I don’t think Vl make out the papers to-night"? Messrs, Oftice- Seekers of Ue limportunate stripe, possess your souls In patience, for Grant won’thurry himseif, and your “papers” won't be made out to-night nor to- morrow night. HE OFFICES TO BE FILLED—THE COLLBCTORSHIP. ‘The principai federal office in this city is. of course, the Collectorsiip, and it is not at all likely that Forty-cent-candy Smythe will be continued tp that lucrative post au hour jonger than the requirements of tue office demand. There are not, however, so many candiates tor the office as might be expected, Kveu the bland, oratorical aud obsequious Hiram Walbridge seems to have abandoned all hope tat his persuasive longne can Lave the slightest effect in moving the imperturbable Grant. Had Marshall 0, Roberts succeeded in his aspirations at Alouany aud got the appendage of Senator to his name, Fred | Conklin would have had a good chance ol stepping into Smythe’s place. Mr Roverts himself does not want it, aud under any circumstances it might have been acceptable to him he vows readily and with good grace to the wishes of his commercial aud mercantile confreres who de- sive to see Mr. Moses Grinnell in Uhag position, one in which his great experience 4s an importer and exporter and extensive shipowner will be o7 incal- cuabie advaulage, not oniy to the mercantile in- terest throughout the country, but to the govern- ment. It is accepted op all hands, therefore, that Mr. GrinneH will get tne refusal of tie collectorship, aud that he, in compliment to his mercantiie friends, will accept. WHAT IS AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. ‘The defeat of Morgan and the success of Fenton in the late senatorial contest will give a very dierent complexion to the couiposition of many of the minor ‘and subordinate offices to be filed. After the Presi- dent has made the appointments of principals he ‘Will leave the selection of subordinates pretty much to others, and here the Fenton tfuence will be felt | . in favor of the Mends and supporters who stood by him in the late contest. Tae Morgan star having puled its ineffectual fire all Morganiies now in ofice wili assuredly get free papers to travel, an’ their Places be given to staunch Fentonttes. This is the rigat and legitimate jaw of succession, and is one of the principal incentives to taituful political parti. s@auship, and therefore as good republicans or demo- rata, as the case may be, the defeated ought to en- tertain no harsh feelings agaist te victors. THE PORT SURVEYORSHIP AND THE CANDIDATES. ‘Tue surveyorship of the port is che office next in | importance to the collectorship. As the office 1lanow open compention, there being no person promi- nently ientioned for it, or by common assent al- Jovted toPit, there are a great nawber of aspirants anxious to do the State some service by stepping inio the shoes of Mr. Abram Wakeman. Rufus FP. An- | drews would have no objection to the place; in fact, he has placed i} before him as the goal of bis an tion—he prize ior which he has been contending in the repubucan catap, and to be defeated now, acer ail lis pains and labors, would ea terrible blow | to that erst stanch opponent of Charley Spencer— | combative leader of the other wing, gud Who | jus own litte bone ta his mind’s eye, but not yet } ue to hand, to pick. Jolm Cochrane, whose | iitary prowees and successful generaiship | ust be well KNOWD and appreciated by the great cuef, thinks taat he is as well cat out by nature for | 4 surveyor as a soldier, aud has therefore a hanker- ing #{ter the post. Grant might tlxe to prove his ap- riation for bis subsitern’s Valuable services in the | in the attainment of victories, but the gallant nder of Post 8 of the Grand Army of the putvve 18 not the wan for tits oflicia! por Joba, tov, warskalied a party of repubi as, and with a ®Gow of force that could be wielded by tm waited upon tue President the other day and paid his cor Wine rivimg sun. John is known to have a great afiuity Jor rising sans and veering aronnd the po- Jitical orbit, and at tne night tue aod place attach- tug lumself by Look or by crook to the winning side, though himself contributed nothing to saccess. But there [9 another general, not actuaily a candidate for , DUL WhO Would “gel it for the asxing”— 1 and valiant Sickles, who came Lome om the war With @ recotd that any patriot soldier Dught be proud of and any cinef magisirate | und peopie would be happy to reward. encrai | Sickies’ name has been ijwenuioned in connection | ‘With the oMice, but we cannot day (hat he ts @ candi- | date therefor. There are several other candidates in the field, amoug Whom iooms up the bariy form of | the m« vod chief of produce merchants, General | anxious to distinguish himsel! as | holder, aud 4§ such to entold bis portly person in the glorious Stars and Stripes, to draw lis sale ery “ixcelst Ben Field, of | Erie, who ver, 18 @ candidate, and whose | chances, in absence of any competitoralip on ral Sickles, ure about Al at head- » carry of the prize, Ken isa | being, in fact, the Bisimarck- | and in the distribution | the part of Ger qnarters, ts ii Whole Host in hin Sweevy of the radi I part; say of smaller ofices ¢ Ww this man “go and he goeth,” and to another ‘come and he cometh’ but | Whether he is coming or going mto the Port su’ ship Ben knoweth but must take his chance against nimsei(—that 13, against the “Meld.” THE DISTRICT ATTURNEYSH IP. ' he office that is most sougit atter is that of | States DMstrict Attorney. This Chatiey # upon as his fair guerdon—his rigii- @ous fee for service i perfurmed in the cam- paigo. But e of bis vaine will nardly be ue aud Lis guerdon | ‘Will not be neyship; so much the worse Mr. EB. Smith, | Who pus already filed a tin | that oMice, is a alr ' every mdu- | ise or | evils prospect « ence to mivaue 1 right par 0 of Grant #iVing & promue; but to 2 KpluAX—iupenetrad: all candidates unsolvable —ave 4 With regard tof appomtments only tie will unravel Therefore neither blustering Spencer nor wheediing Deiafield can fatier himaetl with any special recognition of hie claims, thouga for the one there 18 no chance except in fis own concels, and for the other he must take his chances agaret the field. Sir. Kuban Alien, Wao las served several years | as Deputy District Attorney, one whom neither ring wor purty has aitherto sace Jin swerving from | the right, i also a candidate for the omfoe. wiit infu. ental supports: \Wasinngton mom Which he sugars a “suceessfui run.” Those Who used to vet on tie equine Kinan Ailen hetd generally @ winning cara, apd Who knows but from tie jere association of ihe “fun of the thing—the deputy of y not objecting—but the President tum 4 ie col, may decide to let Mr, | Allen carry of the prize. Mr, John Seg. wick, aivays @ favorie at Washtagtoa oud iekiog now and again uw “ules thing" of departmental patronage, # booked to run the ymaly he would perhaps be the favorite of the bor and practitioners in the United States Comrts, but Jobo, jike ali John, 1# modest, or else, he doesn’t abow his hand, probably hold-a tramp card that Mr. Guy KR. Pelton, General ‘Tromaine and a the race, but ‘The present Courtney, if & y what owe’ Linexs for this special ‘ ve ve distances ait compet ihe pe olde OF sue Unyted Buyes courts | havebeen at the time of murder. } co' | your paper. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. A Grave'Charge Against the Police. In answer tothe question “Where shall we )ook for relief?” a correspondent writes from the Sher- man House, in Chicago:—“Take away the policemen and there will be very few robberies and murders,” and in support of this Mo startling statement he reiates ol Ins own knowledge what occurred between three and four years ago, in Peari street, Franklyn square, as follows:—About one o'clock ithe mori- ing (April) 1 sat reading, my window one story from tne walk, when I heard voice say, ‘Let me ing.’ I looked out of the win- dow and saw a policeman pusiing a man and knock- tng him antil in a moment he had got the man down and was robbing him.” Th pondent asserts that he saw the man robbed by the officer, that he called to the policeman and was roughly toid to mind dus own business, and had spoken oi it to his family, but was afraid to whisper a word in public for fear of the vengeance of the pouce. The “Beats” of the Police. “Constant Reader,” called out by a notice in the HERALD that the policeman who had charge of . Twelfth street at the time of the Rogers murder had too large & beat to patrol, states that at night from Fifty-ninth street to Seventy-eighth street and from Pith avenue to the East river consutntes one “beat;”? that several men have lately been found dead iu that neighborbood, supposed to have been killed by as- sassins, yet uo investigations had followed. Lights at Long Crossings. A correspondent suggests the propriety of putting up large iamps, weli lighted by several burners, at the intersection of streets where the crossings are long, 23 at Broadway and Fourteenth, ‘Tweuty-third and Thirty-fourth streets, Third avenue and Stuy- Vesant piace, and other simular poluts. He suggesis ‘that these Jaimps be placed on stone platlorms one foot high and from six to eight feet lu diameter, where pedestrians might take refuge from crosslag vehicles. Dangers In a Broadway Ommibus at Night. “Subscriber” informs us that being compeied to ride up town from the Sonth ferry on the evening of the sth instant, he was alove in the omnibus as it reached Broadway and Eighteenth street, where two suspicions characters got in, feigning dranken- ness; bul our correspondent quickly left the vehicle as he perceived the first fodication on the part of one of the strangers of a Mank movement towards lum. Walking up Broadway, he found the same men standing on the corner of Twenty-third street apparently witching another chance to rob a lonely passenger in a passing omnibus. On Twenty-sixth street he met &@ police officer and told him of tne occurrence, and received jor reply:—"Yes, there is too much of that and no cure tor it”? Our corres- pondent announces his intention to go armed here- alter and protect hiuwself, receiving ho protection | rem the authoriies, The Rogers Murder. “Citizen” asks the very pertineut ‘question, “Is the police above suspicion or reproach im the Rogers murder asfair?’ ana he further desires to know where the patrolmen and roundsmen of the vicinity He tiinks that these inquiries require fall answers. Another correspondent, siguing himself “W. A. 8.,"7 has a strong pelle that the marderer or murderers of Nr. Rogers were seen at the time and are remem- bered by several persons, bat who from fear of being incarcerated as Withesses, are naturally enough un- Willig to come forward and give their evide though it might be ever so vainable, He believes that the true source of the dificulty in procuring tm- portant witnesses lies principally that the dre: 1 bagbear of imprisunment persiatentiy confroats inem. Who is to be the New Police Captain ¢ A “Patrolman” writes us to say that itis known among the force that the vacant captaincy on the Police is to be Giied by Judge Bosworth, it belonging to him by consecutive turn, aad that the Judge has selected Sergeant Killelea, from the Emerald Isle, twenty-five years of age, who declared his intention of becoming a citizen in 1861, received his full papers in 1866; was formerly waiter in a Broadway hotel; afier that aman of all work to the Judge and his family; Was appointed to the force by the Judge and was made Coorman, patrolman, roundsinan anil ser- geant, ali inside of two years and four months; is Uliterae, has no education, and has never achieved any merit in ue department. ‘The “patroiman” be- lieves. that sach appointments tend to destroy the emMeiency of the force. ‘The Delivery of Coal, A correspondent writing trom Wall street com- plains of the nnisance of damping cartsfull of coai on the sidewalks and letting them obstruct the paseage for hours before removal. He suggests the London pian of packing the coal ly sacks of juter 200 pounds eact! sli method is not only Cleaner t heaper, aud ore profianic to the cart man. A Suggestion by = Patrolman. Another “ Patrolman’? says that much of we crime committed in this city may be traced to es- aped couric the State Prison and Black- weil's Island, He fore Fuggests that a complete list, with a fall description of the person of conviers ped from either places within the last ten years; and a prisowers who have for- » Diinted and distributed qunong the members of the pouce force, and special inetraction given for their arrest in case of dis- 9 He believes that by tua means the city Would soon be cleared of the most desperate crimi nals, and much securtty given to the citizens, “giways provided they would keep then when caught,” which & @ Very Wise and prudent proviso, imdead, ¢ A Patroiman in Defence of the Police. To Tae Eprror ov cme Heracy;-- ine kind enough to give this article a place in On ali sides we hear complaints of the ig increase of crime and the inefficiency of toe police, The press je teeming every day with sles of cansure against the police, accasing them of inability aud upwitingness to arrest offenders of 2 law and pring them to justice, Upon & police OMicer asa Mere cipher and unworthy aveu of & paxaiug notice, and not anfreqaent!y may be heard the remark, “This police system is a {rand and the police are dead beats, drawing $100 a month from the city treasury and returnitg no equivalent,” In fact, everything disparating and nothing encour- aging is said of our pollee. They get no credit for | what they do and are blamed for what it would be at Limes almost an impossibility to vent. Now as to the inability and unwiilingness of'the police to arrest ofenders a bring Vhem to justice. It is false, Within the last turee months some of the most dar: | Inf and imporiant arrests have been made by tie police of (its city \hat were ever made by any police fore) every etfort to protect the lives and property gf citi- zeus than the police of this city, wore they 2 ily en- conraged in it; and lam sure that men th this elty retarn as mucl the pay they draw, it 14 @ won are 48 any arrests made aa there | of four, discharge tue prisoners, alse sutyect, after he leaves the o opines the offender TAY choose. to cart wt h | instance illustrative of this fact occurred Our citizens look | i: in existence, and | do not believe there is &@ ody of en in this country or any other who are nore willing to do ther duty fathiully and use no other body of f aa equivalent for er to mie that there the fact (iat their eforts are treated with auch Come | tempt by our Police Justices, who, three times ont of the officer a8 of no account and reavinee hum one of any foul pensable, and with their inseparable evils, chief of which are their overcrowded condition and sluggish speed, they must be endured. Everybody cannot keep a carriage. Very few, compared with our en- tire population, can atford the exorbitant luxury of hacks, Pedestrian proclivities are not a peculiarity of onr people. In fact, there is not half the walking done that there should be to make us a_ healthfnl people, -to keep the blooa tingling merrily through our veins, and to keep body and mind sound and capable to bear up bravely under the burden of oppressing cares and labors. Again, most of our business and working population—we refer only to those living on our asiand—live on the east of town or the west of town, or .up town, which now, by general consent, means between Fourteenth and Fifty-ninth strects, orin Yorkville, or Harlem, or Manhattanville, or Carmansvilie, or High Bridge, or the extreme upper boundary of the island at Spuyten Duyvil creek, many mniles away from their stores and shops and counting rooms and the variously multiplied voca- tions of the dauy busy life of our metropolis. Most of these ride in the city cars, filling them to repletion just before the beginning and after the closing of the day’s routine of labor. inthe intermediate hours of the day there are also other streams of travel, but different classes of riders—a slower and less compact flow of the same tide of ceaseiess travel. We will de- serthe in a few paragraphs—for which we have only presen’ room, though the material is ample to cover pages of the HenaLD—these different classes of riders, and set forth some of the more distinctively marked phases of human nature respectively revealing them- selves, It is fonr o'clock. Thus early our city cars begin to fill with passengers. Important actors in the drama of life ave these early,travellers--mainly hewsdealers and newsboys. They are hurrying to the news- paper odices for their bundies of papers, and soon will be scattering broa icast the dally printed record of the world’s history and doings. ‘There is sharp enterprise to be read m every countenance They are very talkative, particularly the newsboys, and rap out good things with as much naturainess as a Dutchman drinks lager, and, notwithstanding their noise and bravging umpudence, occasion no small quantity of mirth among other passengers, including the more staid newsdenlers. No conservator of the peace, not even Grant himself, if he should promise eachaplace in his Cabinet, equid keep them quiet. They will talk and laugh and Joke, andare by nature as innocent as they are seemingly hostile to good cfothes, and contemptuous of the benigniy redeem- ing qualities of cleanliness and cle ng soap. “Why do you keep uf such an infernal noise?” exeatined a ferociously sallow looking gentleman to these boys, a few moruin “You dry up: you aint the conductor,” retorted oue of the juveniies. “put | wont have such notse,” responded the man, in a fary of unger. “Put him oat,” shouted a dozen voic “Flow dare you!" replied the gente: rage of passion. ‘Conductoj want y put these dogs out of the car,” he called out to the latter, Who, line the historical canine we read about, he sport, f doing it,” quietly answered re peculiar rights.” T ter that, succeeding this rejoinder of the conductor, burst upon that choleric gentleman's ears was too mech for him. ithe string, and, with an alr of exquisu nation, left the cars, At five o'clock ie Third avenne cars and the Second avenue , dammies, at their upper ter- | mini fom, begin to fill! up with an- of passengers. There is comforta- room im these cars. Rowsed up and with the shadows of night still hanging over tne city and the gaslights dimly burn- iy aried with their night vigtis, it is no- Uceabie that nearly every one snaggles himself for #@ snooze—a gencral, us but not very successful effort to make up for the pulsory and Ce abie interruption of ther morning repose. ese are the cariy birds, bur it is not many worms they catch. They are those who have to open stores and shops aud make fr i prepare for the hordes of workers to follo T are ‘They son that they cannot ai look of age beyond Hl wear, shows they are not particular mostly grown up boys. ord to as to dress, for the re be, and a pecutlurly premature ther years, which they ne | do not liv na t iife burden very well, hat their early Most are ir pupule- and some js ©6show eid nits thelr Many carry tin dinner palis. hey ride on fs untalkative as @ rosely moody Engiisu cockneys. Ail forts of w we giris, udily neral thin of them very ne the 3 of the early opening ing young men, fashiona- ed sbirt collars and vats of daehy pate © most ap- 8 talk very loud our store ners, and last night's opera or theatre or b chever they hap- pen to have attended, and of course their conversa- tonal resources w 1 not be exhausted If they did not tell of ladies they kuow and visit and of stua- ning times generally, in which oysters and cham- pagne and headaches ure most astonishingly min- | wied. They talk for evect and stare impudently atthe | pretty giris who are so unfortunate as to be obliged | to stand near them and to whom they never think of ovferng a seat. Want of poltteness and brazen impudence show themselves more among this than avy other class of car riders. Graduatiy—with an ai- most burlesque air of grandeur, they do itso extra fine—they stalk away to their stores, where thoir egregious etfrontery subsides into subdued and stu- pid smirking. “L know thove young men" we heard one young lady say to another, just as two astouishingty got up clerks of the style we have been describing left the car, “You astonish me: qu honorabie toil. & gen sed, Wit proved you didn’t recognize therm or to you,” answered the lady. don't extend as far as that,” | Speak to them, or the | ““My acquaintance replied the first lady. “On, you kuow © by sight and name f"* “tow 0" “I know them—to be fools." ‘This is the best doscelptiva that con be given of this clase. ‘Seven o'clock, eight o'clock, and then nine o'clock burry on apace. Merchant begin to fll the aud bani clerks and lawyers’ clerks—a moro intelligent olase of riders, for nearly every one has his news porer and they read them estendily and anwearied- y ult they leave the cars, A little later, and lawyers, bank oficers, clerks in the Custom House and eity government bureaus are on their way to their places of esa, and, of course, take the Inevi oity cars. About (his tao the riders wo show leas of distinctive classes, and more of @ hete- rogeneous mixture, There fat land of cheap boarding houses, with nage baskets, going to market for material for the day's dinner; huge laundry women, who seem likewise to run to obesity, crowd in with elongated baskets filled with washed and unw: linen; errand vo: carrying monster bundies, who cannot get seats, are pitcher ee, about by every joit of the car, Tho crowd is a motley one. ‘The ride is far from agree- able, except to those who have learned to take le ii | bts wil" g "than | | | wears heavily upon them. 1. teranother | ¢ | clas# of passengers he to n by shoals, and | still later, as the cars progress down town, the nuin- | bers _iner s p obliged to To those havi far to go it 1s a w and pro- tracted DUTKaLorys but there 1s no other alternative, and it must ve benny a ore ape oland and jostling and swearing. lickpock thot the light of their RA a lisoins na the, Yenalb of AOte resence Is never wantin, 5 rations takes itself Known and felt at all hours of the day. Some such conversation as the follow- ing is almost always sure to be heard about this time, as say the weatherwise observers in their prog- nostications about the weather:— “Come, let me in,” exclaims some one, trying to work lis way iato the centre of the car. “vo you hear? Make room.’? “There ain't room,” exclaims a person he is trying to push aside. “There 13, sir,” insists the pertinacious Intruder. ‘Dont push me.” will, sir,’? ‘ou won't, sir’? ea, J will?” “Take your hands off me.’? “Go to the d— i,” “You're a —" t “A what ? ejaculates the pertinacious Individual. “T have told you to gow the d-—i, ‘That's sufil- cient.” ‘ Usually the matter ends here, but not always. Sometimes the miruder, who is nothing more or jess: than a pickpocket, has confidants, and they get uy) goueral tively hustling among the passengers, and in the contusion ply their vocation most successfully upon the crowded passengers. As 1s well Known the practice of this artis now often confined to the platform as passengers are struggling to get off the cars. ‘The above ts an episode likely to occur, as we have said, at any tine when the cars are fail, but more particularly at the tune we have mentioned, when they are perfectly compact with their human freight, As the goig up tide begins to move, there is a re- turning tide, made up very jarzely of those going to the theatres and other places of evening amuse- ment. From ¢ight o'clock ail the clésing hours of the thewtres there are comparatively but e" *, when again the cars and stagos pa with the amusement seckera going The latest crowds are from the print- From the busy hives of the printing ey do not siart for their homes till two or o'clock ia the morning. But at all hours of the night, on those lines ich run all night, there are multitudinous riders—paries returuing from protracted revels and from balls and chronic night owls, given to turning night into day. Many of these late nigtt rider, having surcharged their constitutions with fasil off and other villanous com- pounds of poison sold as liquor, are noistiy drunk, thers ave stolidly Inanc and helpless, Tnese give the conductor a good dea! oi trouble. He has ic to the beiligerently drunk for the sake personal safety, aud vainly he strives to nthers 10 Consciousness. you Want to get out?” he will ask the ries to Waken him by a vigorous shak- ar (hic) d—n (hic) business” 13 » of the response he is able to all night to indulge in sleep, ve hot money sullicicnt to secure at a about make jects We migitt touch upon in rity cars. T ack Of polite- fruitful topic, as also the of it shown by ladies to those giving them are not schools of poilteness and it is only becessary to say that be a gentleman, 2 boor Kiy aiways alady. A gentie- will never fail Ww give wp his seat to a Tuan @ woman with @ young clild or tu an old lady or ventiemav. As to carryiy his politeness further, wust depend upon tts galianury to the sex generally aud, especially afier his day 5 work, upon the extent of tus personal weariness particularly. We might speak of the diderent raiiroads—how, lor instance, the most aristocratic of mengers are to be found on the Fourth avenue ine and tae poorest class on tie Second avenue cars and east side of vown lines, and a greater mingiing of classes on the other routes, Tof number of passengers inat annu- ally ride on these lines is almost ineredibly large. For instance, on the Third avenue road there were carried last year 0,00 passengers, They have on tis road 150 cars and 1,500 horses, "On the Second avenue jine there are 50 horse cars and five dumunies: on the Fourth avenue, fifty cars; on the Sixth, seventy-eight care; on the Seventh, thirty- yn the Kighth, 102 © ; on the Belt road f and Fulton serry t son the Ninth, 00 cars; on the thirty-six care; gnteen cars; OD Ty wnd Vesbrosses street iine, twen- ty-two cars; on the Broaiway and University piace tine, sixty-one cars, rilaudt and Grand street line eighteen cars y ail have a propor- tonate nuniber of cars win the Third avenue, 0 and otuer routes there were year soue 6,000,000 passengers. our city cars 1s thus fuliy de- itl, a¢ We Stated in the outset of ent siow rate of locomotion will owing demands of our growing a man aueh sp yenne doth «cur 0 maiter w tis bat im @ hu lie could not have written en of the present condit ‘There must be some sf is between the lower ant u be Harlem boats ma! jing svoppages, in forty minutes, but tick enough time and they are itable to a th ive or to be Ceinyed by tog, and besides uitee enough stoppages. We trust the time is not far distant when engineering akill aud capiial will have achieved the result.so much desired wad demanded. THE DEATH OF MISS STI (Baltimore (Feb. 15) gar riding mode of tr: tions of CKE—SUPICIONS OF FOUL’ PLAY. udenee of Vhiladelphia slegraph., It is pow ascertained that Dr. Paul Schoeppe, of Cartisic, Va., Who is suspt of foul play in caus. ing vie death of Miss Sur his patient, aud who claims Khe willed bim her entire estate, presented a check at the Bank of Caritsle for $59, purporting to have n drawn by Miss Stunecke the day before her dei nd got the money, and aiso presented another check of the same date, purporting to be drawn by the same person, for $140, at the National Bank of Daliumore, which was refused oa suspicion of forgery. It ts now alleged that both checks are forgeries, as aiso the name to the will making him tho sole heir. 1 ts likewise known that he 1s pos- seseed of her gold wateh and chain. The post-inor- tem examination of the deceased by Professor Aiken is not wholly satisfactory, but the Professor says there are suilicten’ suspicions to warrant Schoeppe being taken imto custody. He is still in Carliasie, unurrested. a WANT OF LAROK IN THE SOUTH—DeCADENCR ov te Neoxo.—Planters corapiain of the great scarcity of hands and anticipate much loss during the c in consequence. A great wony negroes last year made money and are this year trying to farm on @ ginali scale for themselves. Four or five will get to- | 9 aud ase one mule, Any inan of sense ni ows how tts will result. The same amount of cotton land cannot be used this year as there was last year, irom the stmple fact wal the labor is not in the country to cultivate it, It is a lamentabie commentary on the great boon of freedom, conierred by the United States apon the negroes, the race is gradually dwindling away. A gen a living near Nontgomery says that on a plantation near ti city, where before the war Urere were about turty women, at ieast fifteen Children were born each year, and that out of the seme vumber of woman las year on the same piace one child was born, ‘This ts Hot an molated instan hers seem to have no remorse of Gouscicnce, ort to every means to destroy their offspring. he young clildrea of jour aad five year of ave are dying ¢ In theolden time tue Whites tooked alter tt enlth, employed Oe geen | and Look w O1 the bi children as they did of ty ow the ar Goccen after thelr ohtidren, Woy: ui AeHOe WAIEATH Mertallty acon couniy” grows MOMGINETY (Aly) Ahad, FOO Ae | event, and he at one time reached the way to a revolution of some kind, and the tone of feeliag that prevails not only on the itself, but among the general public, indicates the time for some great change is at hand. ‘The style in which the sport is talked of by certain of our journals and a section of society by no means indicates accurately its position in the coun- try at large. Apart altogether from those who make racing @ profession and those who, without going that length, may be considered as members of the sporting community, there is no doubt thas the thoroughbred and the system founded for his ad- vancement find a high place in the affections of the majority of Englishmen, and there would be com- paratively few who would rejoice either in the de- cay or in the extinction of the turf. It is certain, however, that it has now reached a crisis In its his- tory, and that all who are interested in tts welfare are anxious that some reform should be introduced which, by sweeping away the abuses that have of Jate years crept into its economy, will place It on a sounder and more lasting basis. Of course it isonly on the part of the Jockey Club that any action in this direction can be taken, and it ts matter for con- gratulation that these gentlemen, who not only oc- cupy so eminent a position in its councils, but have so large @ share of the respect both of the racing world and of the public at large, shouid have taken the initiative, and that in s0 determined a- fashion. Whatever alterations it may hereafter be found necessary to introduce, no one will doubt that the amelioration of the con- dition of the two year old as proposed is the re- solution of which notice has been given in the first step that ought to be taken, and the only question that remains is whether he should be brought to the ston the Ist of May or the ist of July. I have neen paying considerable attention to the tone of feeling that prevails on this question, both In sport- ing circles and out of doors; and though f have found a good deal of hostility to any alteration among those whose regard tor the turf fs founded on selfish grounds, one cannot overlook the fact that the real lovers of the tarf are so steadfast in favor of some change that they will be able to wear down al! opposition. | am inclined to believe that, though there are many who would desire to see Sir Joseph Hawiey’s motion‘prohtbiting the racing or two year olds before the ist of July carried, and though a few are loud in deprecating any reform whatever, the pre- ponderance of feeling is in- favor of Colonel Forester and the drst appearance of two year olds on the ist of May. ‘The question as to the abolition of two year old handicaps before the ist of September hus not as yet al so much discussion as one might lave expected; but it 18 — certain at the arguments against such an alteration—to the effect tat the weights carried in such races are on the average aptuaily less than in others not han- dicaps, and that the extension of the system of penalty racing would amount preeisely to the same thing as that now decried—are not without much cogency. We may expect that when the resolutions are bronght before the Jockey Clab in the Epsom week there will be @ very large attendance of mem- bers, aud | do not see Low the meeting can resnit otherwise (ua in the carrying, if not of Sir Josepn Hawley’s motion (which I doubt), at least of Colonel Forester’s moderate compromise, which"must in the, long rox commend itself to ali turfites who have the reui welfare of the institution at heart. ‘The great event of the week has been the publi- cation of the acceptances for the spring handicaps, and in connection with these the most prominent tact is the scratching of Biae Gown for the Chester Cnp, the handicap for which he headed with tue very Jenient import of 126 pounds. Tt will be re- membered that in my last | stated that grave suspicions were afloat as to the doings in con- nection with thls horse and with Paul Jones, 17 iba: and that insinuations were thrown out by no means creditabio to the handicapper, Mr. Top- haw,jand certain gentlemen who were supposed to have been in his confidence. Both horses were tin- mense favorites even before the weights appeared at all, and, considering the circumstances, already short ‘agony were taken shout them; and tinmedi- ately the handicap was puolished, 12 to 1 was eager- ly booked about the Derby winner, and 14 to | about Mr. Hodgman’s son of Buccaneer. Such a state of matters was tdoubtedly suspicious, and the handt- capper cannot complain if he 1s spoken of in no fatiering terms. But the backers of Blue Gown found tuemselves in a very beim | box” indeed wh@n, on Wednesday morning, they discovered that the horse on whom they had been’ so” aweet ” was notte come to the post at ali, and they were—per- haps naturally cnough—very wroth with Sur Joseph Hawley. baronet, however, exercised a right which belonged to him, and whateverjmay have been his motives—and the peopie are just now racsing their brains to hit upon them—J think he was quite Justified in seratening his horse. Few will suspect him of having been in leagee with the handtcapper; and if ts very probable that when he saw Ins repre- ventative such a favorite before te publication of the weights, and found when they appeared that he had been almost “pitchforkea” Into the race, he (uought something had been going wrong and de- termined on adininistering a little “poctic justice.’ ‘hose Who backed the horse at the ridiculously sort price of 12.10 1 are very properly “bit” for their cupidity; for they could not fail, with ordinary dia- crelon, to know that Sir doseph Hawley had not himself a penny on Bine Gown, and that he had many valuable engagements before Cherter of a less erous nate: ihan that of the “soup plate” The rece has now # far more “open’’ cliar- acter than it previously had, aud that, notwithstand- ing the presence of Paul Jones, who Is by ne means a better favorite, thoagh he now figurea at 11 tol. 1 wenttoned in my last that Nobesplerre, three years, 9 Ibs, had a very “taking” appearance for this 100 to 6: but now it 1s doubtful whether he or his = stabi companion, Khight of the Garter, five years, 122 (bs, t# Intended for this Journey; but the latter has such a compara- tively speaking light weyght that Robespterre may be vel for some other event. Of Sir Joseph Haw- ley’s iot stilt left im The Palmer, five years, 124 lbs., bas been backed at from 34 to 25 to 1; but he can have little chance with the Knight; while about Vagabond, three years, 19 Ibs, 33 to 1 has been taken. St, Mungo, three years, has a very good chaace with 84 lbs, and he is now quoted at 20 to 1. The French party bon | Supported Gondolier, four to ‘ 7 2% to 1 1 again obtamabie, years, 90 Tbs, at to bout King’s five years, 90 Iba. to 1 has been booke has been accepted about Birdseeker, four y 96 Tv, ; aud 4° to Leach about Ay |, three years, 19 Ibe., and Viridis, five years, 00 Tha, ‘The Liverpool Grant National Steeplechase has occupied @ great deal of attention durtug the week, wad Nas given rise to & large amount of speculation, at which I ean only glance. The handicap ts, on the whole, a el Sere 6%, Aull is as creditable to Mr. ‘Topham as Chester is the reverse; but it is wn 4 D to apnalyze, as there are many horses which appe: to be “tn it,” and some of the larger stables are rp resented by so many that it Is tnrpossible to discover under which thi the pea may be found. The bone six years, 147 lba., Who has hitherto proved hiniweld eT at hurdle racer, has been for some time first fa , aml is now freely backed at 11 tot, Fan, aged, 140 1bs., Who ran second tn the Grand National, which Costoivin won then and whojumped better than be, Ut Wd Ree iuce done only mode. rately remains stad, . Globule, mae 10510, has @ good chaice, seeing that two years ayo he ran third with nearly 14 Iba. more, HOW stands at 100 to 6; his stable icy Anints- man’s Daughter, 148 ibe, is at 25 to 1, while the third of Mr. team, Brick, agod,.147 Ibs, Has retired to 60 to 1, and if he; is the worst i the Jot one or other of the otuer two ought to win The Nun, aged, 168 Ibs, has been sap. ves to 3; but she cannot beat Brick, who Rhished far in front of her at Croydon. Of Mr. Bray. ley's representatives, Pearl Diver, aged, 175 ibs., 19 Oe ed at 26 to 1, and Sea King, aged, i4H1bs., at 40 10 1, and 100 to & contd be had about w Aleibiade, aged, 156 Ibs., 18 quoved at 80 to 1 Orne, five years, 166 Ibs, 8 friendiess at 60 to fathwell, aged, 162 Ibs., at one time gave way to companion, Barbarian, 8ix years, 140 ihs,, scorn come back WO 25 to 1. Sultan, aged, iain aetive preparation at Chantilly, and Hore at 20 to TL. OF the reat, Havelock, aged, , Hae dochined to 60 to1, which is also taken the race. Gd at 33 D 1, ke His wtalvie Dut fas a 1 ‘Three to 1 can be bad about Mr. Merry’s horse to any amount. The following table gives in a com tive form the entries and acceptances for the spring Rencicspe of this year and last, and shows the growth and fall- ing off of each:— Hanii- wal, LejtTa. cape Left Ine a as cap tom Ts (Tali £8 5B oe 6 4 Oa 3 % © lr ro a ¢ 35 “mM. 10 EY | 7 ry ® 1 a o im 7 m4 “ He had been wiling for a long time; virtually retired from the tu:f a couple years since on account of weakness, and at last suc- cumbed on Tuesday last to consumption. For years Mr. Jackson was one of the most prominent men on the turf, not only from the victories of many of the horses which he elther owned or had a share ip, but from the magnitude of his transactions. Among ‘‘leviathans” he was @ leviathan of more than ordinary note, and won and lost many hundreds of thousands of pounds by speculation, His man characteristic—that which distinguished him from most of his brother “metalliciuns”—was that he was heart and sow! a sportsman and not a mere layer of the od and that he not whether he lost or wow on & race provided he saw his tavorite colors first past the post. He was devoted chiefly to lords Gi ww and Zetland, and no one who ever heard it will forget the frantic shout of joy which he used to raise when the white and crimson or the spots came sweeping past at the head of a field, even jongh he had himself lost heavily by the result. He owned or was associated with ‘famous horses, among others Saunterer, who ied home 124 pownds into third place for the Cambri: ire; ‘Tum Whifler, who won the Chester Cup as a three year old, with 95 Upc on Queen’s Vase at Ascot and the Doncaster and wood cnps; Eliand, who carried off the Liverpool Autumn Cup; ‘Repulse; whe credited him with the One Thousand Guineas; Tun- stall Maid, Inst Whose name we find the Great Ne andicap and the Great Yi Stakes; Magnifier, Tatton, places on the turf scroll of fame, years Mr. Jackson purchased the Fairtleld es- tate, at York, where he commenced a breeding es- tablistment, which might in time have rivalled Mr. Blenkiron’s at Middie and which was got up on the most expensive scale; not always wisely but always well. When Blair Athole was sold as a, stallion ksoD gave £5,000 lor two-thirds of him; and the sires and brood mares he bought were always the best he could get for money, * though be poset made mistakes. The stud, in conse- quence of was sold é increasing weakness of 1ts last year; but, as the reign of “piu and ugh priced stock was then over, the sum it Sorought was not so great a8 Was expected. He left, 2 wever, an ainpie jortune to his wile und family. re J mn Was ID very reapect @ thorougn sports- man, and his death wil be regretted by all who have any acquaintance with turf alfairs. To show that the sport ls not to be altogether de- serted by the “nobs,” and that defections from the ranks do not weaken them, | may mention that— though a sporting journal of this morniug says other- wise—the quis of Hamilton, eldest son of the Dake of Abercorn, is at once to come on the turf and that his stud is being selected and will be managed by his brother-in-law, Lord Westmoreland, in whose name the horses will ran. Another accession is the Duke of Norfolk, who will in a short time come inte the fleid; while Lord Caithorpe has taken the place of the Duke of Beaufortin having the first call on Fordtiam’s services. SANDWICH ISLANDS. The Smallpox Excitement—Arrival of Consul ; Spaiding—Accusation Against General Me- Cook—Sagar Crop—Exports. % HONOLULD, Jan. 16, 1869. ‘The public are still excited and alarmed about te smallpox, A public meeting was held on the even- ing of the 26th ult., which resulted in the appoint ment of a committee to petition his Majesty for the removal of the Board of Health. ‘The steamer Montana arrived on the 1th and was allowed to come, to tee dock and discharge cargo, but having been but twelve days making the pas- sage the passengers were kept on board for three days. The steatucr was alongside the dock, vessels lying ahead and astern of ner, from which parties from the shore could shake hands and chat with the passengers. 1 could occupy @ column showlag up the inconsistency of the course of the board. What will come ont of the matter rematns to be seen, Colonel Z. 5, Spalding 4 @ passenger by the Mon- tana. fie has presented hia credentials through the Acting Minister of the United States, aud some curt. osity Was felt to leara whether this governiuent will aecept him as United states Consul, but they have issued an exequatar to him, Some party gave our little island commnnity a lampooning ia the Oreriand Monthly for December, and the question of the tour is, Who wrote ‘Soe! Lite in the ‘Tropics ?** It has beenlaid to Genera’ B. M. McCook and by some to Colonel Spalding. Both parties deny having written it or knowing anything in regard to its anthorship: bat it is hard to make imany believe thet the General ts innocent, It is hard to belleve that any one who had been as well re- ceived as General McCook and family were could tarn about and abuse Chose who had shown nothing hat kindness and courtesy, 1 trust the General may clear himself beyond a reasonable dont, ‘The President's Message has been published by th governnient paper, but no comment or reinare accompanies f The Presidents comments on the Hawailan Reciprocity treaty were anything but neceptanle to the powers that be, but they gul them in sflence. ‘The Japs here are a nuisance. Every one who hag S louse servants or fed hands wishes them in their native land. They are dciteate, indo-~ and aro guilty of some of the most revoiting Cerone antatt in Our sugar plantations will soon commence grindy ing off the hew crop, When the steamers of the on Company fornia, Oregon and Mexico Steams) again carry fall ireights to San Pranct ‘The high prices ootained for sugars in San Fran- cisco have sent them up to 1c. for atrictly No. 1, and other grades in proportion; but these cannot be sustained. A Molasses, 120, @ L5c. per gation, ‘Tue Collector Gencral pf Customs has pndlitshed the following table of exports for the year 1863, com- pared with the sayie for 1867 :— Snare, Ibe, Whalebooe, ibs Peauwis.... vi omen rts Cor 1868, dommeatic expurts for 1867. The Gritiah ship Robert L. Lan ter, suiled on the vd inst, for je cargo consists prinelpally ¢f 29,067 gallons of sperm making one of oll anit 274,810 gallons of whale o val cargoon of oll shipped trom thie the moat ial port for ten years,