The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. woOD's MUSEUM AND MENAGERI®, Broadw: re ner Thirticth 1.—Matinee datly, Performance every evening NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tux Drama or Tux BuERaLD Ring. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tan Due. i THE MisT-GyanasTic FRATO—FAMILY Jans. BOOTH’S 7. Tax Lavy 01 ' WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th sir Lost at BRA. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 28d a. —THR TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. EATRE, 28d st., between Sib ana Gta aya.— Lyons. ' OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—New VEusion oF HAMLET, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street,—ExGiisn OrEna— TAs MARRIAGE OF Figano, Ld AVENUE THEATHE, Twenty-fourth st,—Pz00 NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Noa. 45 aud 47 Bowory— GxaMan Orrea—Fua DIAvoLo. )_ MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— FRou-Frou, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2 Bowery.—Coaro VOCAL isa, NEGRO ia as ad ko. THEATRE pony E “SM Broadway, Couto Vooat 18M, NkGRO ACTS, £0. BAFIES OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mtb AL Bay ann's MINSTBELS, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! FIAN MINGTRELSY, NzonO ATs, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Eruro- PIAN MINGTRELSEY, Neono Aors, 40, NEW YORK CIRO! AnD QyaNasrio Pa S, 585 Bron ‘way. —Rernto- 0, -FEMALE BROKERS oth street.~EQUEBTRIAN 40, APOLLO HALL, corner 28th Tux New HiveExrox. _ HOOLEY'S OPERA HC MINeTRKLS—TuE 4-7 Tainve atreet and Broadway. Brooklyn.--HooLEr's TRIPLE eri York, pee ‘SHEBT, 25, Friday, March CovrENTS oF TO Ws HERALD, PacE. advertisements, 2—Adivertisements, B3—The State Capital: The Young Braves and the Old Warriors in Deadly Conflict; Heavy Skirmishing in the Senate Yesterday; Caucus of the New York Delegation; Tue Hatcher and the Braves Drinking Fire With the Granda Sachem—The sp ashions: Opening Day tn the Metropol ersonal Intelligence— Princeton Alumni Dinner~Army and Naval Intelligence—Mobile KB. Jetermined Sual- etde—Journalistt io Quod—Amu nis. 4=—Europe : German Opinion of the Papal Conneil; the HERALD as @ Reilgious Light in Russia; Russian Imperial Visit to Mra, Burlingame; the French Indictment Against Prince Bona- parte; Queen Victoria's Health; old World ltems—News tromyCuba and Venezucla—xe- cution of @ Murderer in Ohio—The Norwalk Bank Bond Robvery—Youtuful Depravity in Chicago. S—Ihe Wrecked Democrac Bothered and Bewilder 4p Bloomfeid, ) The Anti-Stow-ic Philoso- phors—Newark Methocist Conference—Rey. George H. Hepworth's Lecture on Humbug— A Turner Union Squabble~Capture of Rum Smuggiers—The Noribern Pacifie Ratlroad Company—Raid on the National Treasury— The Sleepy Hollow Horror—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courta—Reat Es- tate Matters—Billiard Tournament—Long Island News—The Fire at Castle Garden. @—Lditorials: Leading Articie on the Presideni's Mossage on the Decline of American Com- merce—Amusement Announcements. 9—Editorials—Telegraptic News From Ail Parts of the World : {Napoleon's Action Agaiast Regi- elde Conspirators; Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s arlal—The America’s Cup: The Coming Race for its Possesston—New York City News—Balls Last Nignt—Brooklyn City ; News—The Frauds by Importers—Fire in Jolin Street—Longevity— Bustness Notices. S—Indian Fightiog: The Punishment of the Pie- gana; Compiete Account of Colonel Baker's Expedition Against the Savages; A Further Keport from General Sheridan—Cless Mat- ters—Enforcing Sanitary Laws: Civil Actions to Compel Obedience to the Health Board—Tho Midiand Railway—Financlal and Commercial Reporta—Municipal Afvatra, 8~Disfranchisement of Perth Amboy: How Cam- den and Amboy Can Carry Out Thelr De- signs—A “Lost Cause’ Swindler —Strange Accident—Marriages and Deaths--Advertise- ments. 10—Wasnington: The St. Domingo Treaty Vader Consideration; Sumner’s Argument Against Ratification; Another Instance of Spanish Im- pertinence; Depate in the House on the Tariff Bill—Shipping Intel!igenco—Aadvertisementa, A1—Acvertisement) 12—Advertisem y's Right Bower : Beaten Soreheads sault and Robbery Srnaror Genet Is Becoming Personar in reference to the Police Commission ; but Hank Smith, they say, has become a stout believer in the saying virtues of the country democracy. Revence.—The defeated and badly whipped Mantilinis of the copperhead school are trying to revenge themselves for the late waxing Old Tammany gave them in Albany by making mouths at Bill Tweed. Att Rigur—The recommendation which, with the proclamation of the fifteenth amend- ment, the President proposes to make to Con- gress for a universal amnesty, and such an act will be the appropriate crowning capstone of equal justice end nd eqnal rights for all. Amen! Tn Semetr Commissioner. —Does not Mr, McLean know that the rough democracy are using him as a catspaw? When he can no longer serve them they will hoist him, if they get the power, over the bulwarks of the Street Department to make room Creamer. Poor McLean ! caegeee | Tne Catnorio Bisnors | Rome refuse to assent to the procla: the dogma of Papal infallibility. Atl to conciliate them baye proved futile, for Genet or ports | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1870.—-TRIPLE SHEET. American Commerce. The special message of the President in relation to the decline of American commerce and on the necessity of adopting measures to revive it, which was sent to Congress on Wednesday and published in the Hznavp yes- terday, shows that General Grant is alive to and stadying the material interests of the country. This messago is an endorsement, to use the President's own language, of the “very able, calm and exhaustive report” of the committee of the House of Represonta- tives which was appointed te inquire into the cause of the decline of American com- merce and to suggest a remedy. The Presi- dent recommends also in general terms the adoption of some such measures aa the com- mittee has submitted in the form of bills for regaining our lost commerce and for building up our merchant marine. There are two points which the President makes worthy of the serious consideration of Congress, One is that the carrying trade of the country having passed in a great measure into the hands of foreigners, in consequence of the decline of our tonnage, the freights of this trade, to the amount of twenty to thirty mil- lions @ year, are lost tous, The sum thus extracted goes Into the pockets of our com- mercial rivals, and fs, as he says, ‘‘a direct drain upon the resourees of the country,” and like casting so much money into the sea. This is, we think, a low estimate of the loss sustained, though tho President does not in- clude the vast amount that is paid in passage money to foreign shippers, If we reckon the freights, the passage money and the ex- change in favor of foreigners in consequence of possessing the carrying trade, the amount would exceed, probably, fifty millions an- nually. The work done by foreigners, the President properly remarks, ‘should be done by American owned and American manned vessels.” This state of things is, to use his own words, a ‘‘national humiliation.” General Grant has the right view, too, of the disastrous effect of American commerce carried in foreign bottoms on the balance of trade and exchange, for he says:—‘“If a fair proportion of this trade were carried on in American ships it would diminish the balance of trade against us to the extent of the freight and passage money—that is, to the extent, probably, of fifty millions a year.” Another point the President makes is that the merchant marine ia an important auxiliary of the navy in time of war, and that it renders unt ary, to some extent, a costly naval establishment. He notices the fact that at the commencement of the late war our navy consisted of less than one hundred vessels, of abont a hundred and fifty thousand tons, and a force of eight thousand men, and that we drew from the merchant marine, which had cost the government nothing, but which had been a source of national wealth, six hundred Free, | independent and happy! One flag, on D- try and one God. Such men as these can afford to go without a hat a little longer, as for ' ht uit hear ¢ silk st A Nice Crry Gbveae EN had succeeded in cx ug their plang at; Albany on Tuesday the leaders in the city } government would have been made up next year as follows:— Mayor—Jimmy O' frien. Chamberiain—Jack Morrtasey, Oomptroiler—Mike Norton. With a train of prize fighters,. gamblers, panel thieves, stuffers, dead rabbits and rose- buds 94 deputies sad nasistante. If the roughs | , vessels, exceeding one milion4ons, and about seventy thousand men, to aid in the suppres- sion of the rebellion, This, he observes, “demonstrates the value of the merchant marine as a means of national defence in time of war,” Regarding the means to be used to revive our merchant marine and commerce and the recommendation of the committee the Presi- dent thinks a direct monoy subsidy is less liable to abuse than indirect ald given for that object. Still he holds the opinion that while subsidies may be given to epecitic lines of steamers or other vessela the policy should not be adopted as a rule for all, but that while subsidizing very desirable lines of ocean traffic assistance should be given in an effective way to the merchant marine generally. Every American will cordially respond to the President’s wish to revive our shipping and commerce. That is what all have at heart. But the question is, how can this be done? Is the plan of the confmittee and of the Presi- dent the best one? Very important steam- ship lines, where the mail service is valuable, might be subsidized, and Congress might strain a point in payment for such service beyond the postal receipts if great commercial interests are to be promoted; but anything like a general system of subsidizing would open the door to innumerable evils, 1t would be a direct tax upon the people at large for the benefit of one interest "and a limited class of the community. It would establish a dan- gerous and costly precedent, and at one blow would overthrow the long established policy of this country. Every special interest-—manu- facturing, mining, commercial, agricultural and industrial—could mako the same claim for direct subsidies upon this precedent, There would be no end to spetial legislation, lobbying and corruption. Indirect aid to ship- building and shipping interests could be given by taking off duties on materials that enter into the construction of vessels and stores used on board of them. This would mate- riully assist our shipbuilders and merchants, Or there may be found other means of afford- ing incidental assistance. But, after all, the best and most effective way to increase our tonnage is to permit oar capitalists and mer- chants to build or buy ships wherever they can be got cheapest, France and Ger- many get many of their splendid steamships from the Clyde, and they become just as much French and German as if constructed at home. France and Germany get the profits and ad- vantages of commerce through these vessels just as much aa if they had been built in those countries. Why should we not do the same ? The great object is to increase our tonnage, to save the freights and passage money that now go into the pockets of foreigners; and thus to turn the balance of trade more inour favor. Tho interests of a few shipbuilders are insig- nificant compared with these important ad- vantages. But the Registry laws stand in the Ww We hope Congress and the President | * will look at the matter in this practical point sw, and while giving all the incidental ion or aid possible to shipbuilding and e3 our capitalisis and merchants ted to buy vessels in the best and pest market, Versus Sovrern . HL) Republican states in that section has been sen- } tencedto the mild punishment of one year's | imprisonment for committing a most atrocious and unspeakable outrage upon a poor woman over three score years old. In the South yil- | tains are hupg for lone Leinous offen ges, The Prosidenv’s Mossage on the Deoline of | Our Special Europoan Advices by Mall— The Old World As It Is. The European mail of the 12th of March, delivered at this port yesterday, supplied .us with a most valuable special correspondence from the Old World, furnishing, in addition, » varied and very interesting newspaper detail of our cable telegrams to date. Our special writers in Berlin and St, Petersburg present matter of considerable import, the first rela- tive to the national feeling which exists in Germany on the subject of the Papal claims of infallibility aud Church doctrinal ascendancy asset forth in the Ecumenical Council ; the second expressive of the gracefal and honor- able memoriam tribute which was paid by the Czar of Russia to the memory of the late Minister Burlingame by an imperial visit made to his widow. The religious alarm which exists in North Germany appears to be very intense in feeling and with its spirit decidedly opposed to Papal _ preten- sions. In this connection it will be remarked that the countrymen of Luther and Huss experience religious light and con- solation to-day from the pagos of the Hexatp published in New York—a decided attestation in support of our claims of a missionary evan- gelism for the free and independent press of America preaching with the modern “gift of tongues” by electricity. The French indict- ment under which Prince Pierre Bonaparte is being tried appears in extenso in its legal verbiage in our columns, Queen Victoria held a Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, from which we report the style of dress fash- ions just prevalent at the British Court, at the same moment when we extend a very sin- cere welcome to her Majesty on her reappear- ance as the leader of the circle. The Queen was suitably supported by the “Princess of Wales and two of the young Princesses, | daughters of her Majesty. Murder and sui- cide are again spoken of in repulsive form from France. England had an elopement in high life terminating in the marriage of Lady Blanche Noel, daughter of the Earl of Gains; borough, in a Catholic church. Mr. Disraeli stirred up the conservative electors of London toa rally for a parliamentary seats triumph. France remained decidedly hostile to the plan of the pontifical schema, Turkey sends reports of progress and religious consistency. Our European news budget speaks thus of joy and grief, royalty and democracy, consola- tien and crime, religion, law, politics and love, in a general and very instructive commin- glemont—instructive, as it tells the American people what to imitate and what it is healthy to avoid in the customs and habils of the communities of the Ola Land, A Fixe Cuance ror Caaniry.—It is given out that there is to be a meeting of the Tam- many General Commiltee in the Wigwam on Monday evening next. The occasion will fill the house as it was never filled before, for there is a very general opinion that the pro- ceedings will be very interesting. If, there- fore, the arrangement can be made for the charge of five dollars admission (and upon this charge the house will be crammed), with the understanding that the clear receipts shall be given to the Foundling Hospital in care of the Sisters of Charity, it will be equal, perhaps, to fifteen thousand dollars to that excellent in- stitution, And why not, then, have it so? Such opportunities for charity seldom occur, and they should not be neglected, Tne CANADIAN Portoy or Reraiatioy.— In the Nova Scotia Legislature on Wednesday aresolution was introduced and made a special order for next Friday, setting forth that the proposed policy of retaliating on the United States for the withdrawal of the Reciprocity Treaty by imposing heavy duties on American imports, is unsound in itself and is especially inopportune at present when the American Congress is considering the subject of reduc- ing the duties on Canadian exports. The Nova Scotians take agound view of the matter from their standpoint, but they need not expect another reciprocity treaty with the United States. Uncle Sam will treat the Canadian provinces as well as he treats New York when they come in under his flag, but they must not expect to do so before. They can get rid of their export troubles, their Fenian fears, their Winnipeg rebellions and all their ills simply by annexation, Tire REPUBLICANS MASTERS OF THE Firetp,— If ithe true that the silk stockings and the young @emocratic militia are now for “war to the knife and the knife to tho hilt” against the democratic regulars, the republicans are mas- ters of the field at Albany, and it reste with them, as men of law and order, to say whether the democratic law and order men or jack- knives shall take back seatsin our city govern- ment. The opportunity for law and order is a glorious one, and the republicans, if they will, can turn it to a glorious account. Tae Mux Trapgk.—A oonvention of milk- men was held at Croton Falls on Wednesday, and resolutions were adopted denouncing the swill milk dealers and pledging the members ofthe convention to use no swill or delete- rious substance as food for their cows in future, and to supply dealers and customers with good, pure milk. This is an encouraging and gratifying sign. It encourages us to hope that, with the aid of Mr. Bergh, it will be quite possible ere long to take milk without a thought of stump-tail cows or of the dilating qualities of Croton water, and that metropoli- tan babies will grow up lusty and strong from the pure lacteal nourishment of the cow, instead of weak and puny from the evervating effects of the hydrant. Mork CHArtERs.—The knocking in the head of the huckleberry charter in the Assem- bly, it appeors, is producing a new crop of charters, good, bad and indifferent, It is hardly worth the powder, however, to open fire on these various schemes or their chances while the confusion of Babel reigns among the builders of the temple. It is the confusion of an African ant hill after 4 rade rhinoceros has been amusing himeelf ia rooting it up. A Great Spero BY A Woman. —The Nevada City Gazette says the speech of Mrs, Laura De Force Gordon a few evenings pre- vious in the Senate Chamber is admitted to be the best yet delivered in the State House. There is nothing very extraordinary in this, for from time immemorial women have pro- vorbially boen ‘‘great talkora,” The Legislature Yosterday. “Grim visaged war" continues to make fearful faces in both branches of the Logisla- ture. The clouds that lowered upon the House have not yet lifted. A partial trace has resulted from the dreadful exhaustion of Wednesday; but the hostile combatants still make mouths at one another. Mr. Genet yes- terday proposed a bill in the Senate to prevent fraudulent voting, and Mr. Tweed objected ; whereupon Genet made his mouth at Tweed by intimating that he whs not surprised at that Senator objecting. He also made a mouth at Hank Smith, showing his teeth this time with cannibalistic intentions, He offered a resolu- tion declaring Smith’s position as Police Com- missioner vacant, and proposing an election onthe 6th of April to Mill the vacancy. The resolution, however, was laid over under the rule. “Then Mr, Creamer, who represents the cream of the muscular democracy, denounced the controlling politicians of New York as robbers, and looked as sour as curdled milk while he recounted their intrigues. ‘Give New York an election lay that will prevent frauds,” said he, ‘‘and it will get along without ® new Charter.” At this the republicans smiled complacently and all democratic belli- gerents made faces. Mr. rear reported the Brooklyn Police bill last night In the Assembly, where there had been an ominous calm all day. Mr. Jacobs asked that {t bo made a special order for to-day, but Mr. Alvord came up as smiling and rosy as a well-groomed prize fighter, and objected. He had serious doubts whether the Metropolitan Police district would be abolished this session, and therefore considered the Brooklyn bill useless, Mr. Husted also fol- lowed in Mr. Alvord’s view, and Mr. Jacobs said he could not see why these republican members should presume to talk for the majority of the House. The resolution was lost, and Mr. Jacobs probably got a better in- sight into the cause of the presumption of the republicans, As it was, these latter remained complacent and smiling as in the Senate, evidently comprehonding that the longer the fight went on the better for them. Late at night, however, the demoralized democracy made un effort to pick up the pieces, and a caucus of some of the young democrats was held, at which, after an urgent invitation, Mr. Tweed and his friends consented to be pre- sent. A compromise was effected, but on what basis has not zat been learned, A New STATE BARBER. —In In their frantic contortions upon their defeat the silk stocking and rough and tumble democracy have brought a new State barber on the carpet. It is in the person of Mr. A. D. Barber, who is styled “King of the Lobby,” after the manner of the old State Barber of thirty odd years ago. Revolutions always bring some new face upon the surface of politics. In this case the Barber has been completely shaved, for the scalpers have taken his entire head off, and tumbled it, with Hank Smith’s, into the Street Commis- sioner’s basket. THe Unirep Srares Senate was in oxecu- tive session all day yesterday on the St, Domingo treaty. Senator Sumner took up the whole time in opposition to its ratification. As the time for the exchange of ratifications expires on Tuesday, the Sonate has no time to lose, and will continue the discussion in secret session to-day, when we again urge them to come to ® conclusion in favor of the treaty. The Dominicans have voted for it, and are doubtless jubilant over their early political salvation. F A Bresstxe@ iN Diseuisk.—The copperhead organ of this city, with its rebel instincts, looks upon (h» recent rout of the roughs in Albany as “a blessing in disguise.” That was tho balm applied by the Southerners to thoir defeats during the war, A Capersiie IN Waion Turret Was No Jop.—Tho Cumberland (Md.) Tranecript, re- ferring to the appointment by the Proggpent of George W. Collomer to a naval caetship, states that the appointee is the son of the lato George W. Collomer, once of Boston, after- wards Mayor of Lawrence, Kansas, who was killed by Quantrell in the bloody struggle in that State, This is said to be the only cadet- ship the President had at his disposal, and the nature of the appointment shows a’marked contrast with the action of certain members of Congress who have had similar favors to be- stow. There is evidently no job in this cadot- ship. More Casius and Mork Examvies.—The cable from Aden, on the Arabian coast, via the Red Sea to Suez, Egypt, has been success- fully laid, The connection is now complete between London and Bombay—sea all the way, and British guns to watch it, with the excep- tion of the neck of land in Egypt under the control of the Viceroy. Another cable, called the Indo-European cable, has also been com- pleted. England has thus two great lines connecting her with the heart of Asia. We have done much, but what haye we done to make a telegraphie connection with Avia? We, must stir up. A Constitution Wnosk Corner Strong 18 Lorrertrs.—The Montgomery (Ala.) Jour- nal—radical organ—apologizes for the Gover- nor not ridding the State of lotteries, as he could not “‘overcome his sense of duty to the constitution.” That constitution is a bad one that has such a corner stone—about a3 bad as that of the late confederacy, whose corner stone wasslavery. Alabama had better amend her constitution and thus keej pace with the progress of the age in the Northern States, all of which have laws against lotteries, modestly substituting therefor those delectable concerns called ‘gift concerts! and ‘gift enterprises.” Waere’s raz Borp Caprat Bint Winry’s “Avenging Angel” that was to have swept burglars, thieves, assassins and all sorts of scoundrels from the Twelfth ward last fall? Is the present not a propitious timo for that avenging angel to again sweep the ward with his mighty pinions, or, by hitching up with the “Destroying Angel” in Albany, make a team that wjll prove @ terror at home and abroad ? A Tuetvine WesrverN TowN.—The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor of tho 19th inst. contains no less“than twenty-six columns of apparently good paying advorlisements, Of course such @ placo must be flourishing. The next State fair in Kansas is to be held in Fort Scott, Westward, hoi Tho Spring Opoulng ef Pashions, Yesterday wasa gala occasion for the modistes of ihe metropolis, Then for the first time they removed the veil of mystery that ao long hid the treasures of the chameleon deity from the eyes of her votaries and displayed them in their most attractive shape. From morning till night Broadway was gayer and more brilliant than ever, and elegant equipages blocked the approaches to the marts of fashion, Bon- nets and dresses were on exhibition in bewil- dering variety and profusion, and the ever smiling modistes glanced at each triumphantly as the murmur of approbation from the de- lighted customers fell on their ears. There is little of decided novelty in either bonnets or dresses this season, at least nothing of a revolutionary character. There is also more regard paid to the dictates of common sense and taste in both styles and materiala—a cir- cumstance which will surprise and delight benedicts of every description. Nothing “loud,” extravagant or nonsensical is tolorated by the fair daughters of Manhattan, and the modistes have endeavored to comply faithfully with their wishes, Pro To Tae Anmy.—Goneral Prim scarcely leaves us room to doubt that he is doing his best to see the end from the beginning. He sees anarchy and many chances, If the cable faithfully reports his language it is not dificult to understand his meaning, To the officers of the army generally, and to the Madrid garrison particularly Prim says, ‘‘Obey no orders but mine.” This really does seem to indicate dan- gerous complications, It is long since Prim was spoken of as the future dictator. Now that the unionists and progresistas are at drawn daggers does Prim mean to make rumor a fact? Tue Capetsmip INxyEsTiGATION.—General Logan's committee reported yesterday on the subject of cadet appointments, recommending that acadet be required to reside two years in the district from which he is appointed ; that lobbyists known to have attempted to bribe members be excluded from the rooms and gal- leries of the House; that General Schoept be |. removed from the Patent Office, and that Com- mander Upshur be court martialied. The term of a cadet’s residence was reduced to one year, the bill was passed and the report was adopted. Mr. Mungen is exonerated by this report from the transactions alleged against him, We are glad of it. It would be too bad ifhe had any more sins to answer for than repudiation and his Globe specches. “How He Nios Tuem.”—District Attorney Morris is fetching down an election frand pigeon at every shot, and in this good work } he deserves to be remembered by every honest voter concerned. Men of Brooklyn, stand by him. Tax Hiaw Court or Jusrice oF Franor, sitting at Tours for the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, will also examine and adjudge the cases of the persons charged with conspiracy against the State and the life of the Emperor Napoleon, The prosecuting officer has been notifled of the fact by the crown. This is quite fair, right and proper. Democracy has its rights, imperialism its citizen and personal wrongs. The law is the supreme earthly arbiter. The general acknowledgment of this fact gives evidence of the health and vitality of France—the Emperor Napoleon III. Two Hunprep Taovsany.—It is said that the fund employed in the slaughter of those bills on Tuosday last was not one hundred thousand, but two hundred thousand dollars, So much the better, then, for the incorruptibles of the rural districts, Having found where the placer is, however, will they not be likely to call again? When the Californians find a gold placer they work it to the bottom, and when they leave the Chinese come along and work all the dirt over again. Mork Parent Pavements.—There is hardly any nuisance so intolerable to the property owners of the metropolis as the mania for experimentalizing upon street pave- ments which seems to possess our City Fathers, Hardly a week passes without some new job of the kind being developed and foisted upon the sorely oppressed taxpayers without any regard for their wishes or interests. The pas- sage, over the Mayor's veto, of two resolutions on Monday authorizing the pavoment of streets is an instance. The number of experi- ments in this matter is assuming bewildering proportions, and from the experience we have had in the Fifth avenue swindle, it is time that some limits be placed on such jobs. The Broadway pavement has proved the only satisfactory one of these experiments, many of the others being intolerable nuisances, The Legislature should look into the matter and come to the relief of the indignant pro- perty owners of the metropolis. Powwow at THR WiawAM oN Monpay Niaut.—On Monday night next a grand pow- wow of the Tammany sachoms and braves will be held at the Wigwam in Fourteenth street. The questions of tomahawks and scalping knives as well as that of wampum may be dis- cussed amid the soothing influences of the pipo of peace. Ifthe Tammany General Committee get into a row, the Tammany Society, in august assemblage, will decide who shall be the ‘‘ins” and who shall bo the “‘outs.” It isa big Indian ‘émuss” ina new shape, Who will be the ‘Old Hickory” of the occasion ? ————— Tue Boarp or Hearra, it seems, bas done very well in instituting suits against the pro- prietors of illy-equipped tenement houses, but it is not often that the full penalties of the law are enforced. As a number of politicians have several of these easy sulis pending against them we may presume that even te: ment houses can be manipulated for political purposes, G on Geary.—The Daily Topic has made its appearance in Mar- risburg, Pa. It is edited by Dr. John HH. Gihon, for a couple of years the Private Secre- tary of Governor Geary, Ita ‘‘daily topic” will no doubt bo the furtherance of the interests of Governor Geary as the free labor candidate for the next Presidency. AN Onaan “Nnver Say Dir.’ ’—Mr. Tweed, as Deputy Street Commissioner, does not resign, but bides his time. He is clearly a believer in Sam Patch’s grand idea that “‘some things can bo done as well as others," and in his war paint, foathers and tomahawk he is s big Indian, I ne ee Sa EEG GPa aSEPaE EE OEPaPa aS ear eaeee ee emeer Forryboat Acoldonts, It Is very oxtraordinary that for somo time past there have beon so many accidents re- ported on our ferries. Hardly a week passes without an account of some inebriated, insane or otherwise perplexed individual ‘walking the plank” involuntarily and making an un- premeditated visit to the fishes in the harbor and rivers. How is it that on these momentous occasions the poor sufferer is permitted to sink to the bottom without a single effort to rescue being made by the employés of the ferry com- pany? It would seem as if there were no pre- cautions of any kind taken on these boats against any possibility of disaster. Take the Brooklyn ferries as an instance. The boats are over- crowded every evening, and it is only a miracle that more accidents do not occur, Ifa person falls overboard he or she has ninoty-nine chances out of a hundred in favor of drowna- ing, Last Monday a poor fellow fell over- board from one of the Jersey ferries and was instantly drowned, because no life-saving ap- paratus was on hand. Hundreds of other cases might be cited. The boat moves on, and the lost passenger is forgotten until, perhaps, the papers chronicle the demise. This is radi- cally wrong, and we call upon the Logislature to compel tho heartless ferry corporations to adopt some humane measures to save any un- fortunates from the untimely death that threat- ens them every time they venture across olther of our rivers. The ferries are miserably man- aged in other respects, but in this they are inexcusable. Talk of the Society for the Pre« vention of Cruelty to Animals! * Why not pay alittlo attention to the mach abused blpeds who trust themselves at every hour of the day on our ferries? Progress IN THE SourH.—The West Point (Miss,) ZZerald, a spirited sheet, printed in a thriving town, is in raptures over the prospect of the formation of a new county, of which, we suppose, West Point is to be the county seat and the ZZerald the county organ. It is proposed to erect the new county out of parte of Chickasaw, Monroe, Lowndes and Oktib- beha counties, The ZZerald already sves in imagination “‘the towering cupola of a massive granite court house, myriads of hungry court house officials, a cosey, tidy, safe brick jail and legal ‘ads’ by the square; therefore we exult, we are exultant, buoyed up by hopes, hopes of better days, days in which a West Point paper can make money.” Already a West Point cotton factory is proposed, and as the town is located in the centre of a luxuriant cotton growing region the raw material can find # ready and convenient home market, This is one of the signs of Southern progress that becomes at once cheering and encour- aging. Tho Vuulskment of the Picyans=Sheridan and the Indians. We publish to-day a very interesting and graphic account of the recent punishment of the Piegan savages. It is written by an officer who accompanied the expedition, and whose descriptive details will relieve the affair of the horrors which certain newspapers, for partisan~ purposes, have endeavored to surround it. The truth is there seems to be a great out- cry, even in Congress, about what is called the Piogan massacre; but the outcry is mainly for political effect. The gallant record of Phil Sheridan cannot escape when so good an op- portunity offers for his enemies to fling dirt on him, They charge him with inhumanity aad cold-blooded murder, and compare him with the infamous Hamiltons and Alvas of other times, The facts on which these terriblo charges are founded are simply these; A force of troops in General Sheridan’s depart- ment, in pursuance of a plan arranged some time previously to attack the Piegan marau- ders during the winter time, when they would be taken at a disadvantage, fell upon a village of them and after a severe fight killed a large number of them, including squawg and chil- dren, and captured others, These are the facts in a nutshell, The grounds on which barbarity and inhu- manily are charged lie in the fact that this attack was made in winter, and that women and children were killed. The attack was made in winter becanse in any other season of the year these roving tribes are fleetly mounted and are enabled by their light- ness and rapidity to commit depreda- tions almost with impunity, as they can easily get away from our more cumbrous cay- alry. They depredate nearly all summer in this way. Until within a few years they have been in the habit of making treaties of peace With the whites at the beginning of each winter, in order to subsist in plenty during the cold months, and lay up ammunition, blankets and whiskey trom the white man’s stores so as to be ready when the grass grew to commence the spring campaigns again. When Sheridan first carried out his idea of a winter war upon them it was an astonisher from which they never re- covered. The first severe blow of the kind was in 1868, when General Custer, with the Sev- enth cavalry, fell ons lodge on the Wachita and defeated the Indians with heavy loss, his own command losing several brave and gallant young spirits—among them, it will be romem- bered, Major Elliott and Captain Louis McLane Hamilton, Several squaws wore also killed in that affair, and we heard pretty much the same talk then as now about barbarity. But in regard to the squaws, they fight as deter- minedly as tho braves, and often even more resolutely, Besides, they are not to be distin- guished easily from the men during a fight. They generally appear in a blanket and a stove- pipe hat, and few of the chiefs dress any bet- ter; so that it is not at all to be wondered at if our soldiers fail to discriminate on account of race or sex during the hurry and flurry of a battle. In firing by a volley or at will it is Impogsible to to discriminate, and when the women are fighting as savagely as the men it ia certainly not required to discrimi- nate, We are quite sure that during the riots of 1863 in this city, when some of the women were desperately engaged in the very centro of the mob, hooting, jecring and firing at the troops, the very essence of gallantry or hu- manity would not have urged discrimination on account of sex in the return volleys. The Indian of tho present is not tho noble red man of the Leather Stocking days. He ia mean, besotted, sensual and cruel. The news papers teem every day with stories of horrible outrages perpetrated on white settlers out West, and ospecially on the women, by the vory tribes that those enemies of Sheridan now Ree inet tne eta inere we Se ~<a ing vine 22 “t's sgn be Yh aS ee OE PRA PP nd an nearer Eh RM AID Rl oot fiat aa enna