The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1870, Page 15

L- ST. DOMINGO. Views Regarding Its Annexation to the United States, Opposition to President Grant on the Dominican Question. Notes on Dominica and Hayti by General Re- gada, Late Minister Under Salnave, The St. Domingo Treaty. New York, March 28, 1870, fo Tae Eprror oF THE HexaLp:— Perhaps in the whole history of the country there is wotning to be found which so perfectly aemonstrates ‘the disordered condition of American politics as the ferce imbrogiio in the Senate over this treaty. Its rejection is based willy upon what a few Senators regard as & deieuce of the political fortress of their body. General Grant’s clection, so far as the politicians Of the ruling party were concerned, was a sort of flank movement, made with no view of keeping upon that line of march. He was taken up, not that they expected thereby to gain, but to retain power in the Senate. He was taken as an instrument, to be used or thrown aside at will, What they must not encounter was the moral force of a defeat by the election of a President @pposed to them. They nad biundered in the whole Work of reconstruction, The first step in that mar- Vellous scheme unfolded a view of the second, and #0 On through all the ups and downs of that won- erful chain of measures, It became evident their improvised reconstruction would be @ most odious affair on an adverse Presidential vote, They had all the power they wanted in the two houses of Con- gress; all, indeed, they were willing to receive after the election of their own Chief Magistrate, They took General Urant, we repeat, not to gain, but to retain power. They stripped the Executive of quite ‘all bis constitutional functions and had no thonght im the world of losing what they gained by that act. ‘The war had made politicians, and politicians know better than statesmen how to rotain and consoll- ate power, Politicians act exclusively for tae pre- Sent, statesmen act for the present and future, When General Grant was put up for election everybody knew he was wholly without experience 1n the etvil administration of the State. This was the guarantee that he would not assume to be more than @ nominal President, His want of experience ‘Was counted as both a want of gense and patriot- ism. He was made President, and it comes out that he is much after the Jackson model—a man of integrity and great directness of inteliect, He has been singularly cautious, thoughtful ana prudent. He thinks more than he talks—politicians talk more than they think. His one year’s Presidency is with- out blot or blemish. Hw bas fallen inte nobody's hands, nor has ue sought in any one thing to trench ‘upon the constitutional power of any otier depart- pee of the government. He has sent to the Seuate ST. DOMINGO TREATY for the approval of that vody. A combination 1s formed at once to reject the treaty, simply because General Graut made it without first receiving direc - tions the Senate. We doubt, mdeed, if the merita of the matter have come into the case at all, The mixcount of profits and losses in the Alaska affair has been seized upon as a sort of scarecrow against any further annexation. On the strength of that blunder an opportunity ts offerea, it is thougut, to strike a fatal blow at General Grant and paralyze hereafter the executive arm. ‘The combination ts regarded by the democrats as 8 sign of aisruption of the republican party, and forthwith they enlist es soldiers under ‘that conservative republican, Mr. Sumner. Forgetting the traditions and committals of thelr old leaders, all rituals and catechisms, Mr. Bayard, Mr, Casserly aod Mr. ‘Thorman come in with @ protest against the annexation of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Califor- Dia, Mr. Casserly 13 opposed to aunexation. Mr, Van Buren bargained with Mr. Clay to oppose an- Nexation. Both went down. THE WHIGS OPPOSED THE ANNEXATION OF CALIFORNIA. Did they gain by uw? Mr. C1 is opposed to the annexation of St. Domingo, a naif-way house for ali of our ships engaged in the indirect carrying trade of the West Indies, Central and South America. ‘The island contains 24,000 square miles of territory, ‘vast bodies of mahogany, rosewood ana other tim: ber, great mineral wealth and the best of harbors. ‘These we are to get at a cost of $1,500,000. sum ‘that will be repaid to us by REVENUES AND PRODUCTS THE FIRST YEAR. But the dereat of the treaty will be a fatal blow at General Grant. If it puts General Grant down’ wil! itnot put Mr. Sumner and the Senate up? What folly and weakness it is to suppose the rejection of the treaty will either damage General Grant or make St. Domingo less valuable to us! If the project is meritorious what we may lose by the rejection will ‘be added to the character of the President, The Senate is not bound to ratify the treaty simply be- cause Generai Grant made it; but clearly that body has no right to reject it, either because he made it or for that more disgusting reason, because it will ‘bring on distractions in the republican party. The rOle assigned to the democrats 18 a@ positive dis- grace. We havea right to look forward to the re- Movai of RESTRICTIONS FROM COMMERCE AND SHIPPING. Our industries and energy as a nation can hardly fail at an early day to control almost the entire car- rying business of both Americas, We are to the Spanish race just wnat Mr. Casserly knows we have been tn California to the same race. There 1s no! Page in the history of the human family more prea- ant with pi of the controlling power of our people over the Spanish race than that df the con- quest and settlement of California. Will not Sen- ators drop their party devices and traps for once and look to the great future of their country? A Distinguished Haytien on Annexation, ‘The following communication was addressed by General Kigaud, late Cabinet Minister of the Haytien ernment under Salnave, to Judge O’sullivan, ite United States vonsul in France and in the Kast Indies:& 81. Domrxco, March 10, 1870, DBR MR. O'SULLIVAN:— MA day oF two since you expressed the desiro to ba ve from situation of affairs in this country, to you, hoping that they may be of service. ‘They were written in huste, uuder the dictation of a poor old Dominican Drain overloaded with and sorrowa. ‘Take them, therefore, with this allowance, and I Pray youto believe in ny zeal to serve you and the cordial friendship which Ne RIGAUD.» Notes Upon the Annexation of St. Domingo by General Numa Rigaud, Late Minister of the Interior to President Sainave and In the Public Service of the Haytien Government frem 1818S to 1869. ‘The arrangements just made between the Domint- can republic and the great American nation estab- shes the destiny of the former by putting an end to the revolutions which have so constantly upset its institutions and paralyzed its industry; anc this because the United States has only in view peace, progress and civilization, to secure and promote Which has been its object in yielding w the desire of the Dominican government. All honor, then, to the leaders of these two peo- ples—to President Baez fgr having comprehended the imperious necessity of consolidating fur the ru- ture the LABOR AND ENTERPRISE OF A RACE §o thoroughly demoralized from all steady industry by incessant political commotions, the result of ma- terial or personal greed; to Preaident Grant for hav- ing socheerfully and earnestly sought to add hia name to the roll of the benefactors of the nation he has been cnosen to guide in the path of civilization and progress—his name among the benefactors of the mation he has been chosen to direct. I foresee that President Baez will encounter many obstacles to the fulfilment of his design. I Know too well the versa- tleand adventurous character of the Dominican People. But 1 feel that he will bravely face dis- couragement, for he krows that however great and noble @ contemplated good work may be, and how- ever glorious the fruits it is destined to bear, it rarely fails to be opposed before its accomplisnment by those who should aid and who wili beneilt by it. THE UNITED STATES, UNLIKE SPAIN, HAVE OBTAINED NO POSSESSION BY CONQUEST. ‘Their acquisitions have been by purchase or by lawfui negotiations, Spain, om the contrary, in acquiring the eastern portion of this island, took Possession of its eastern end by the landing of 15,000 men, with a formidable armament, She came rather 8 @ Conqueror than as a friend seeking to cicatrize ‘Wounds still bieeding of @ nation of the same religion and language as herselt, Hence tnose fatal results, But America has not dop arked a single armed man, ‘while sowing no seeds but those of peace and tran- quillity, Alas, how aftiicting to see # land so im- mense and fertile deprived of culture and of coin- merce, 80 despondent and go languishing that the emigrant who arrives full of hope tinds no field for his Industry, aud ive merchant soon discovers ruln ‘have inspired in me. le in the ta ponstbyiity Of making returns for his im- portations ‘The time bas certainly come to ppp.sa.end to this disastrous stave of affairs, by expelling the hydra of civil war to make way (or peace, suauser; ou pros. President Sainave han Conceived the same dea as President Bacg to check tne incessant irrup- tion of passions which menaced tne total ruin of Haytl, On the other hand, wo far from repressiag auch passiuns and violence, the ayenis of FORBIUN POWERS, AND BSPROLALLY OF ENGLAND, ENCOURAGMD THE Bavg UTLONARY FACTION by aunslving Y every aid for conunuing the Hvstfon: 43a wiltabpliy the propssua sun ine Cabinet at Wasiii2zop eee (0 produce a i satisfactory resuit, for méanwhile tri. UmMphed, Bnd, the;*Cacos,” regarding thls step of Sainaye aa a crime of national treasou, arrested and {uu prisoned the oMeciais who lad signed these propo- gals, Sitice tne anexampled crime commitied upow the person of President Sainave Americans have been constantly the onjects of hatred to che revolu- tlonaries and their government. including even Mr, Bassets, the United States Chargé because, he refused to fraveruize with them aud to deilver up taose whom the proteouion of the American fag was pre- serving from @ certain death. Indved, 1t was con- templated at one time to invade the consulate and seize these unhappy refugees, but this crime was pre. vented by the resuiute attitude of Mr. Bassew Captain Owen, then in command of American war steamer Seminole. Lam assured that the revolutionists have been 50 far unabie to elect a President. ‘fue spirit. o1 per- sonal smbition and the onion, of lnirigue Lave pro- ue ussensions among them, each one tuink: aoe ore ie the ego = ae ie Genel (waage, the Provisional President, 1s only @ weathercock, turning at ie breath of a one’s caprice, Doiinigue, wu bas assumed the tit of Vice Presiaons, 18 @ nonentity, bu a very cruel one, Uo, despite his secondary posiuion, sends daily to the gallows, under tne very eyes of Nissuge, all those Whom he suspecis of being bis enemies. | He manutactures his own paper money and forces it upon the population, so that HAYTI 18 CORSED with two currencies—the Ni migue scrip. ituled by lis nephews, the Kameaus, two ining sanguinary Minisiers, Doun- nigue oveys ail their Wishes. They piliage the stave and make constant remittances of funds to Cura- Coa, their native piace, for weir uw private ac- count, They have discredited President Sainave's pager to a discount of ninety per cent as compared with their own, to the ruin of commerce and all hoiders of the Salnave bills. ‘This has iniuriavea the beopie, and the onnappy country (olks Who tad token the Sainave currency in excuauge ior their products swear that they will die before submitting to vue loss of ninety per cent, The revolutiontts vave curried their astute idea still further by publishing a decree which grants a month's delay to the hoiders of Sai- Mave’s paper in depositing the same in the ‘Treasury in exchange for @ receipt stating that the govera- ment wiil settie for the same at 108 earliest conven- leuce; 80 taat a poor devil holding $100,000 will re- ceive an acknowldgement for $10,000 papabie in Domingue’s paper, “God knows when.” Hence all Who have weighed and understood the march of events in Hayti foresee that the revolution will not long enjoy the fruits of its wiuimph. Already a great Portion of the South—the Aoricots, Graud Aase—ex- tremely populous, are in arms fighting the Cacos witn desperation and vowing to avenge tue murder of Saluave ana tus officers. Te cultivation of lands, the only resource of the country, 18 entirely aban- doneu, everyvody having been for three years under arms. (See the recent papers relating to the deso- and the Domt- , ation of Paraguay, Where in Asuncion alone there Were 20,000 starving women.) ‘I'ne population is de- cimated by lights and executious—tue latter occur- ring duily—to gratuy the appeuie tor biooa, waich grows by what it ieedes on. Not three weeks ago three men and three women were executed in one morning at Port au Prince, and the daily rations of these revolutionary tgers are never less than three per diem. Every morning some notabse citi- zeus, Tathers of fauiiies and even women and chil- aren, are sentto death. Nor are foreigners spared, and the Abbe Biscaye, the French almouer of sal- Qave, Was stripped and murdered at the “Boquets,”” while, but for the energetic intervention of Mr. Dotan, French Consul at Port au Prince, Marc Aurélie, an italian prets, late the curate of Mira- goane, woula have been shot, he having been sen- tenced to death and heavily ironed in the dungeon, from which he was extricated. T have spoken of the,decimation of the population. ‘This, alas | 1s literaily true, ‘Ten years ago the two repubiics together numbered 1,000,000 of peopie. ‘to-day there are not 800,000, and this when we need at least 4,000,000 to cultivate the soll; besides that peace, contidence and security, which can alone ENCOURAGE IMMIGRATION and draw its bicssings from the wonderful land with which nature surfounds us. Clear it is, then, that having given proof of our incapacity sor seil- government by becoming a fatal example in the An- tilles, we need protectors and regents wno shall command us to desist from our political discords, exclaiming, ‘Peace, be still! The nineteenth cen- tary, which ts the age of civilization and progress, depiores your infatuation and orders you to fail back, since you prove that of yourselves you can do nothing!"? It is vital that President Baez should lose uo time in crushing out tne exe Tebellion; for it 48 @ constant truth, proven b¥experience in politics, that an armed uprising, however small in numbers, against the estabiis! order of things becomes a “nucieus"’ of that malevolence which looks to it lor aid in the accomplishment of criminal enterprises. The foregoing is a faith{ul translation of the ori- ginal in my possession. 3. BP. OSULLAVAN, EUCADOR. The Treaty with Colombia—Dissntisfac- tion—Punishment of Rebela—A Little Dime culty Looming Up—American Movements Regarded with Suspicion—Disastrous Fire— Earthquake. PaNnaMa, March 7, 1870. Dates from Guayaquil are to the 24d uls. The treaty between Eucador and the United States of Colombia, signed in June last, continued to create a great deal of discontent, especially among Colom- bians residing im Eucador,so much so that it is hardly likely it will be ratified. This treaty gives to the governments of Colombla and Eucador supreme authority over the citizens of eltherjcountry, whether residents or travellers who may be within their ter- ritory. The treaty, if ratified, will prove much more favorable to Eucador than to Colombia, as there are many more Colombians residing in Eucador than there are Eucadorians in Colombia. Three of the persons engaged in the attempt at Tevoiution of December last have been shot, Al- though every effort was made to have the sentence commuted President Moreno was inexorable. In this respect Garcia Moreno foliows the example of Carrera, of Guatemala, an exampie which might be followed to advantage by all Spanish-American re- publics. Cold lead ior the leaders isan excellent preventive of revolutionary movements m these countries, ‘The Minister of Foreign Aftairs of Ecuador ad. dressed a lever to the governments of Peru and Brazil, on 13tn of January last, saying that his gov- erument would mot recognize any of the encroach- ments made by either government on her territory by extending their boundary lines beyond tnetr pro- per limits. At the same time he requested Peru to name @ commission to fix the proper boundaries between the two republics. ‘The government has revoked the privilege con- ceded to Mr. T. de Sabla, in 1867, to establisa tele graph lines between Ecuador and Colombia, he hay- ing failed to fulfil his part of the contract, which required him to commence the work within two years from the date of the concession. ‘The movements of tue United States steamer Nyack in the commencoment of the year seem to have caused the Ecuadorians much uneasiness. A report having been circulated in January last that the Nyack’ was rote surveys and taking soundings in the neighborhood of the Galapagos Isiands an in- Yestigation into the mater has been ordered, and if the report proves to be true satisfaction is to be de- manded forthwith from the United States—so aays the latest advices. ¥. J. Salazar, Minister of the Intertor ana Foreign Affairs, has resigned and bis resignation has veou accepted. ‘The line of small American river boats which has been running on the Guayaquil river for years past 18 now likely to be mterfered with by the govern- ment. It has been decided, it is said, that none but boats bearing the Ecuadorian flag and manned by Ecuadorians shail hereafter be employed. Mr. Lee, the manager of the American line, bas brought the sudject to the notice of the United Staves Consul at Gneyaant Mr. Welle, who has forwarded full par- uuculars of the matter to Washington, Another disastrous fire occurred in the village of Vinces, about one day’s journey from Guayaquil, on the 28th of January, destroying chirty-nine houses in two hours. Slight shocks of earthquake were felt at Guayaquil on the night of the 27tu of January and on the 3d of of February. Shocks have also been felt at Quito, Imbavure ana many of the northern frontier towns, and at Manta aud other piaces on the coast they have been very frequent, vit without causiug serious damage. A FEDERAL JUDGE DECIDES iN FAVOa QF MORMONISSA. (From the Corinne (Utah Territory) Reporter, Marca 22. In the Third District Court of the United States, at Salt Lake City, on the 15th inst., Chief Justice ©. C. Wilson presiding, the Court rendered @ decision to the eifect that the probate courts of Utan have exclu- sive original jurisdiction in all matters of divorce, allmony, &c. This ruling was made in the case of Taylor vs, Tayior, iu an action for divorce. Excep- tions filed by platotifi’s attoruey, Judge Spicer, and appeal taken to the Supreme Conrt of tne Territory. According to this extraordinary dictum of Judge Wilson it will be observed that the Mormon theory of probate courts possessing equal if not superior pe ons to the federai bench, is now recognized y such high pee authority that there is no longer @ doubt of oar situation. ‘Tne Chiet Justice is reported to be a man of soma legal attainments, but it would only require a scanty Knowledge of the history of Utan to enable that officer to see that in bis decision on the case in point ne endorses the persistent attempt of Mormon- ism to supersede the courts of the United States in this Territory. It would be charitable to attribute W igforance of the law thi son, but we must forego that metnod of extenuating What in our opinion @ grievous wrong to the people, and Ou his part aa error mot arising from macutal incapacity. THE TREASURES OF TRINITY, The Heirs of Annoke Jans Once More on the Warpath. A New Way to Pay Old Dobts—The Law and the Prophets in tho Case— What the Vestry Say—A Pro- ductive Interviow. 1! Anneke Jans, revered and prolific matron, bevter thou haast pever been born than be the cause of 60 much misery of mind among thy ten thousand @reat-great-grandoliiidren, Had thy name and cor- Poral entity never been known on Manhattan Island thy innumerable descendants wouid be contentedly engaged at Present moment securing the prosperous results of honest and indus- trious labor in place of year by year waking up with @ delirious hope of hav- ing the fabduious wealth of ‘Trinity divided pro rata among them. The delusion will last a lite while longer, and lawyers of small practice and smaller repute will continue to gull the unsophisti- cated snd distant offspring of the tnteresting Anneke Jans. Mayor. Hall, whose Knickerbocker knowledge is not to be despised, thinks it is a hopeless task for the heirs of Anneke Jans to seek by legal process the enjoy- ment of any part of the property of the Tripity corporation. The trick has been successfully played for some years past of sending circutars to country folks, informing them that as heirs of Annexe Jana they had every prospect of belng quickly and largely enriched if they were willing to subscribe @ Certain sum to carry out the necessary legal proceedings, which money has found tts way from the West w this city on the strength of these representations, ana wit! no doubt continue to be received for some time to come to forward the laudable and proficabe scheino of arresting the corrosive influence of the vast wealth owned by Trinity churoh, WHAT'S UP. The latest project on hand among tho hetra of Anncke Jaus 13 that of subverting the present vestry of Trinity. ‘To accomplish this it will be necessary to gain @ majority among the voters who elect the church wardens and vestrymen. If this can be ac- complished it 1s easy to see that the “heirs’’ will Nave matters all their own way, and the ancient rights and privileges of Trinity will be knocked, to use @ Vulgar expression, higher than a kite. Of course this thing cannot be done in a duy or a week. Trinity is @ mighty close corporation. En- trance to its inner mysteries is more dificult than ever was the boldest effort of secuiar curiosity to gain familiar acquaintance with the priests of the Delphic Oracle, All the ingenuity, ali the caution, adroitness and skiltul training or the lawyer's mind will nave to be em- ployed to make the plan wear the vomplexion of suc- cess, Nevertheless, serious thoughts are entertained that the scheme for ousting the old crowd who con- trol the immense property of Trinity will be vieased with a happy fruition, The public, if consuited, would certainly declare their preference for a change, for who in walking along that magnificent thorough- fare of Canal strect can repress an impulse to ana- thematize the ignorant and narrow-minded corpor- ation which keeps the willing enterprise of ao many citizens from rendering Canal street the fnest avenue of commercial stores in this or any other city. The ‘Trinity men laugh at the schemes reported as being set on foot by the heirs of Anneke Jaus. They have grown indifferent to any assaalis, no matter from what quarter they may come, upon their intrenched stronghoid, Still, if the “neira’*— and their number is legion—will only continue to keep the thing prominently be(ore the public eye they may ultimately succeed in eithér getting vheir long neglected rights recognized or else sufficient compensation in the way of hush money lo stop agitating the subject forevermore. THE LAW AND THR PROPHETS. The qualifications for voters required by the act of 1784 were “ail persons professing themselves meri- bers of the Episcopal Church, wo shall either hold, occupy or enor @ pew orseat in sald church and shali regularly contripute to the support of the said ohuren, vod Such others a8 shallin the said church partake of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup- per at least once in every year, belug inhabitants of the city ana county of New York,’ The second sec- tion confers the power of inducting a rector of Trinity church upon the church wardens and vestry- men of the said corporauon. When, therefore, the third section quoted requires that the voters shouid hold, &@., a pew or seat in tne church and pay to the snpport of it, 1 manifestly refers to the Trinity church, which was the audject of the act. So the last clause relating to those who partake of the communion “in the said church” inustrefer tothe same Trinity church, which was the antecedent of all the previous refer- ences in the same law. To say that this cause refers to those haloes d the com- munion in the Episcopal church, nerally would be to attribute to tue law mukers @ very on- necessary pieonasim as it Was elready required of ail voters that they should be “professing Wieumselves meulbers of the Episcopal Church." THE TECHNICALITIES IN THE WAY OF THR HETRS. The second section of tne act of 1814 prohibits any person {rom voting at any election for the church Wardens and vestrymen of the corporation who shali been for the space of one year preceding On & Member of the congregation of Triuity church or of one of its chapels. The term congrega- tion bas a detinite meaning. It denotes all the per- sons who usually e@seemble for public worship im the same church, but it is impossibie to read the third section of the act of 1754and not confess that no such condition as that of a regular or of any attendance on the service of the church is there recognized. By the terms of this section every pew holder and every person who, without being @ pew holder, had partaken in the ¢hurch within the year of the holy sacrament ts entitled to all the privileges of a corporator, and looking merely to the languge employed it 18 difficuli to see how any court or tribunal couid reject the vote of a person thus entitied on the ground that ne uad not by nts attendance on tue services of tae Church during the preceding year reudered himself a member of the congregation. THE PAST OF THE LITIGATION, Dnring more than thirty-five years past aifferent Persons have commenced suits 10 Lhe courts or this Stace tor the recovery of the real estate held by ‘Trinity. Previousto 1830 Mr. Bogardus, clatiing to be the heir of Anneke Jans, commenced proceed- ings in the Court of Chancery against Trinity to recover @ part of wWist was called Queen's Farm. The case was elaborately argued and decided in favor of Trinity by Chancellor Walwortn, Shortly afterwards another sult was commenced by Jonos Humbert also claiming to be an heir of Anneke Jans, The complainant's bill was demurred to whereby all that he thought proper to set forth was admitted; the demurrer was sustained by the Chancellor, and the bill was dismissed. Nine Other suits were brought in the Supreme Court by Cornelius Brouwer in 1847, and after the clauses were at issue the plainti(® sub:nitied to a non sult. it Was supposed that these repeated aecisions of one uniform tenor would have extinguished all hopes of success among the claimants; but it was not so. A HEALTHY CORPORATION. The estate of ‘Trinity Church originally consisted of 2,068 lots, of Which since the year 1748 418 lots have been given away, 691 remain, and 1,059 have been soid, The original charter on wuich the claims Of the present corporation are founded was grantea in the Name of the King by the then Governor of the province of New York, im council and under the great seai of the province, w the year 1697, This charter declares that a certain church then recently bulit and erected on Broadway, in the city of New York, suail be the parish church of the parish of Trinity church, within the city of New York; and in a subsequent clause, that it shail be the sole aud only parish church of the sald city, thus, by # Decessary consequence, making the bounds of the parish identical wilh tose of the county. AN INTERVIEW WITH TRINITY CHURCH—THE OWNER, This interesting statement of the condition of Trinity church and Its vase proprietoria! appendages rendered an explanation of the authorities of the church necessary to correctly ascertain the facts, Pursuing the ovject the reporter passed along the sacred soil of St. Paul’s churchyard and was soon within the interior of the smail structure at the corner of Cuurch and Fuiton streets, where ts daily assembled THE CONDENSED WISDOM that manages tue immense estate which has proved such @ pleasant theme of contemplation to the darling descendants of that auiabie lady, Mrs. Jans. The reporter, after receiving the confidenilal information that the attorney aud counsel of the cor- poration, Mr.G, M. Ogden, could pe found up stairs, rose buoyantly to the upper landing and found Mr. Ogden—a pleasant and affable gentieman of forty. five—sitting in the halo of a numerous library aud ample pigeon holes, RePORTER—Mr, Ogden, 1 am from the HERALD, and in pursult of information about Auueke Jaus’ descendants and their latest movemenis, Mr, OGpeN—What are these movements ? ReProRTER—Information has reached the JIERALD office that the heirs of Anneke Jans, despairing of ail Other Ways of getting possession ot the Trinity church property, are to make a movement to con- nect themselves, together with other persons, in sumMeclent numbers, im such @ manuer with the cor. poration as to vote at the annual elections for v trymen and wardens, and thus, by @ comoined and preconcerted pilot, Obtain the reins of go ‘ernmeut and dispense the estates to their best vantage. Do you beileve there are any designs of tuis charac- vert Mr, OGDEN—No, sir, I nave no information of the kind, and am much obliged to the HssaLd for putting tae churcu ov ifs guard, KeronrgR—Do you believe such @ plot could succeed + Mr, OoDEN—Not if we wero forewarned, Rerorrgx—Woel woud be your preventative measures? Mr. OGDEN—We would send circular letters to all the corporators, warning them of whe contingeucy, and ask them to attend the election. KevonrTeR—Whon does the election occur? Mr. OGDEN—On the first Tuesday alter Easter, When twenty vestrymen, and two church wardens &re elected, Keeorter—What are the quaitfications of electors? Mr. OGpeN (going to the bookcase and imprison- tog a speecutess voiuame)—According Ww the act of ibid @ male adult wao shall have been a regular attendant of ‘'rinity caurch or any of its chapels for oue year preceding tue election, and shall have com- muned oace during that tune, 18 constituted @ cor- porator and 18 entitied to vote. A simple pew- holder and not a member of the society, if he con- forms to the other conuitions, is also a competent voter, and no ovhers, Krronren—Do you believe that the heirs contem- Dlave this plot t Mir. OGsN (with a bouquet of incredible smiles)— No, sir; it Would involve too much moral depravity. RerORTER—Money 18 a powerful incentive, Mr. UGDRN--Yeu 1 do notcredit the rumor, — * ReroxreR—How many corporators now govern the church? Mr, OGb4N—Only about from 600 to 1.000. We Rave four congreganons, ‘Trinity, St. Paul's, St John’s and Trinity chapel, ana many pewholders, Few, however, ever atiend the annual election un- les8 there is Some oppusition, aad there bas been none for seven years, Reroxrei—How do you regard the litigation set on foot by Lue heirs of Auneke Jans? Mr. OabRN—We Care uothing for the assaults on the titte, It is sound and will stand againat ail op- Dosition; but of course we are not indiferent to in- dividual assaults as custodians of a great trust. Kerorren—Is the titie generally conceded to be good by every one of good iegal knowiedge t Mr. OGdRx—OI course 1613. itis passed by iaw- yers of the most eminent ability every day and no one Of common sense tpinks W question its good- ness. REPORTER—Mr, Ogden, can you give me in brief the basis upon which the hetrs of Mrs. Jans found thetr claims to the property? Mr. OGDEN—Yes, (Disturbing ® dingy volume of New York State reports of causes tried in Chan- cery ) Here 18 the test cuse, tried yours ago, will give you the summary of the complaint:—Iin 1663 Annéke Jans died, leaving seven chiidren, who becaine heirs to her entire property, On March», 167v, some Of these children, tae ollers not joining, made a deed of the entire estate to Governor Love- lace, the colonial executive. In 1705, by grant of the Crown, this property was vested in Trinity church, to be used for ecclesiastical purposes. Now, we point raised by the claimanis 18 that ‘triuity church 1s @ tepant in common with the heirs of those children wuo did not sign the deed, those sign- ing she deed ceding the property to Governor Love- lace having at that time forfeited ali mterest for themselves and heirs in the property, The claim- ants Lins make those Who did Lot sign this deed the original owners, and go back of the royal grant of 1705. Our argument 1s that a deed may have oeen made by the remaining children and been lost; that we hold possession by the Crown's patent, and that twenty years in adverse possession of an estate con- firms the title in whe possessor by statutes beyoud which no Claimant can go. Reroxrekx—You met the litigation in the courts? Mr. OGbuN—Yos, sir, Aud by overwheluiing evi- dence were victorious at every point, sustaining our possession, in wich We can never be distarbed. KEPoRTER—Why, then, do tie heirs continue before the courts ¢ Mr. OGDEN-—-Becansé they are imposed upon by needy Jawyers, who want their money move than Uney value honesty. RerPoRTeER—W hat is the present wealth of Trinity ? M RerorTsr—And its ticomer Mr. OopeN—About $409,000, and not net at that. Reroxter—Then you are poorer than poor Mr. Stewart or poor Mr. Astor. * . Mr. OGbEN—Yes, sir, tuey are both wealtmer pro- prietors than we are, and go are mauy others. REPORTER—-Why 18 the property not improved more rapidly ? Mr. OGbgN—Because it 18 rfostly on teasenold, and that is hard to improve; but it is gradually growing better. ‘he fact 18, property im the vicinity of Caual street is matransiuon state. Taxe Columbia Col- lege property. Their houses and stores are improved Wuere they pay high rents; but where this corpora tion gets but fifty dollars a year but littie advance- nent t# made, This is natural. RePorrkr—What docs the society intend doing with this magnificent block? (pointing to St. Paul's graveyard, opposite the HERALD office), Mr. OGpEN—It will never be disturbed, The terri- tory 18 @ historic ground and 18 valued for tla ass0- clations. It will probably remain for ages as wu stands to-day. Rerorrex—Don't you find that Trinity and St Paul's, as down town Churches, are less patronized than years ago. Mr. OGpEN—No, sir. Trinity is always full There is not enough church accommodations in New York for the population. Alter a few rambling repartees the reporter took leave of the geniat barriater, put ou his street looks, and again passed the graveyard of 3 Paul's. im. Dressed ‘with tie Bingdiar destiny Of Mrs. Jans in contributing an endless litigation as her bequest from the wide wilderness of colonial New York to the modern mediey of sardonic greed. MR. fi Ey CUR REPRESENPATIVS IN EGYPT. Yo THe EDcroR OF THE Herat The return of Mr. Hale from Egypt, where he has Mlied one of the most dificult alplomatic stations as agent of our government since the middie of the Wwar,sends us back to the record of his curious services there. He is generally known in this country as the man who ciapped Surratt on the shoulder, said “You are my prisoner,” locked him up and sent him home, But in Egypt, and by American travellers there, and vy the officers of the Egyptian and other govern. ments, his services are counted in very different lines. We have taken pains to look up the record in the correspondence of the HeRaLp, in the State De- partinen’’s pubiications and in other quarters, Arriving in Egypt just when the locum tenens of the American Consulate had quarrelied with the Egyptian government, Mr. Hale, by the frm hand with which he took the reins and the deaf ear which ne turned w all axe-grinders, ai once con- ciliated the respect of the Egyptian govern- ment and ity agents—a reapect which he has never lost, A few firm words soon made peace again, and within a few montns Abrabam Lincoin spoke of the Viceroy of Egypt and the Kmperor of Russia together In the midat of the fatlure of ali our other foreign friends as our “two faithful allies.” It must be understood that the Consul General of Egypt 1s really the Oharge @’affairs. Under his title of ‘agent’ ail is iucluded Whica enables him to re- present this country at the Court of the Khedive, the new naine of the Viceroy. {tis universally known in the East, since the Kosta alfair, that somehow America 1s the friend of Ireedo1a, 80 that tue meanest fellah in Egypt looks to the representative of tis country as in some sort tus ally and protector, The American agent la aiso the patriarchal protector of the American colony, including the descendants of General Eaton's army, witch took Derne for us In 1801, though these people have never seen America and have never learned a word of our language. More interesting yet, he be- comes the agent through which the pious muission- aries of the Presbyterian Church communicate with Se apvarant ene In all these relations the respect with which the Khedive bas regarded our agent has been of tmmense service to those who had to rest upon him. ‘The readers of the HERALD do nov forget the critical service that be has rendered wo the missionaries, when some of their converts were oppressed by fanatica—service wich has been gratefully acknowledged here. In the terrible cholera summer, whea tho Viceroy bimeeif found it convenient to go to Constantinople, Mr. Hale re- mained at hia post in the charge of his colony. ‘The fearless avtention which the Christian Powers thus showed to thelr people was 4 lesson of the lirst value to the Orientais, Hila correspondence with our government shows the steps by Which in successive years tue admunis- tration of justice has advanced in Paxpt, 60 \hat just now, by the consent of all the foreign Powers, & common court is estab. Kished for the litigation in which their sub- Jeots are mterested, anne can be more thorouga than the consideration which bas been given to this subject, and it ts evident tuat the Khedive’s govern- ment has been glad wo avall itself of the suggestions of a person of dr. Hale’s large experience iu admilu- istration of this character. Mr. Hate has chosen to remain in Egypt till this delicate matter has been adjusted and til the canal nas been finished, M. de Lesseps ts his near friend, and he bas been able to study the various fortunes of the canal with the interest of an American weil acquainted With our Own gigantic public system. No better accounts of its progress exist than are farnisged 1n his letters. If ne returny to this coun- try it may be hoped that he will be at liberty to pub- igh some account of it. We remember to lieve seen Wt stated somewhere that the late Mr. Burlingame said Liat Mr. Hie Was the best loformed and inost influential Of a the disuoguished foreigners in Egypt. a A SOLUTION OF THE INDIAN PRODLEvE General Pleasonton used to tell an amusing little Indian story, He was once, while stationed ata frontier post, quite surrounded by threatening bands of Cheyennes. He wished very much to negotiate a treaty With the chiefs, but they were too suspicious or hostile to piace themselves in his power, At last he succeeded in capturing a young Indian of rank, whom he heid as a hostage. One day this captive, snilenly stalking about the fort, came upon a sol- dier who, want of better amusement, was play- ing With @ child’s jninping jack. Toe novle savage was transfixed with wonder and admiration, fle watched the antics of the livtie figure in breathless silence for some minutes, thea turoed and ran like one mad past the sentineia, leaped all obatructious and escaped from the fort. In an incredibly short time, nowever, he returned, heading a deputation of chiefs, who, alter spending an hour or so In wrapt contemplation of the jumping jack, peid a solemn councli and negotiated the desired treaty, slipulat Ing as the moss important condition that the mar. vellous listie toy should always remala at tie fort, Might it not be weil to furnish our peace commis. sioners With @ quantity of jumping jacks? They were better, at jeast, tian rides, Woacco and Willie key. “NEW, YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1870—QUADRUPLE. SHEET. es AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPH SYSTEM | Little’s Invention and the Western Union Telegraph Company. TO TAB KvrOR OF THR AeRAL ‘Tho editor of tho ofttcial organ of the Western Union Telegraph Company, wich ts issued from the executive rooms of the great hydra-headea monop- oly, Continues to evince agreat deai of unhappiness and some uncalled for it nature because you have kindly permitted me to expose through the HxBALD the shallow and baseless attempts of the executive oMcera and the understrappers of that company to Drevent the introduction of one of the greatest in- ventions of the world, with the single exception of the printing press, for dissemivating knowledge, Tho editor of the Oficial Journal, in the last tosue of that mendactous sheet, does me entirely too mucu honor in writing to the public about “Craig's Auvw- matio Telograph.” 1 only wish | possessed the genius and scientific kuowledge to produce an in- veniion possessing the merits of Mr. Littie’s auto- matic telegraph motor and composing tablet, which ure destined, beyond the shadow of a doubt in wy mind, to work @ complete revolution in the tele- graph ana also in the postal business of the country. The Journal charges that | lave seized upon certain features of an old system of telegraphy, long since commended by the editor, and brusued it up to accompiish my “revenges and make money.” ‘Vis 4s but another form of the assertion so constantly reiierated in the Journal during the past few months, the cue having been given to the editor 1n the last annual report of the president of the com- pany to his stockholders, to the effect that the Litue automatic telegraph tnventions were nothing new and nothing more than had been thoroughly tested by the Western Unton Company and its predeces- sors, and had, in the language of the president, beeu jound to be utterly valueless either in competition orth connection with the Morse hand-Key system. ‘The president asserted, and lls Literary tools und “poke sticks’? have reasserted in every concetvable form, officially and unofictaliy, boldly, ike men of principle, and in a mean, insinuating way, like penhy-a-liners or true soldiers of fortune as they reaily are- . 1, That the Western Union Company owns all the automatic telegraph machinery in tue councry. 2 That the company had given it all a ‘long, thorough aud expensive trial,” and found 16 utierly worthiess, 4. ‘Pat automatic telegraph machinery conid not ue worked upon & Wire strung Upon po.es with otter wires, 4. ‘That its transmitting speed does not exceed that Of the Siorse hand key, except upon short circuit, 6 That it is especially untied for press reporting, because only oOue station can receive at the same tinre; with several other statements of alleged facia of leas importance. To this 1ong bill of indictment I replyv—" 1. The Western Union Company does not own any system of automatic telegrapny whatever, ‘Tue company did agree to purchase the sain-rummas- ton invention, bat protessing to find out, before pay- ing tue money, that the patentees bad paimed off upon them @ Worthless invention they*are now try- ing to Hud legal means to evade the periormance of a contract Which they execuced with their eyes wide opel 2. The company have not given the Bain-Hummas- ton or any other system of automatic telegraphy a “long, thorough and expensive triai,’’ for ‘he reason, among others, that the company have never seen any in Europe or America whica cuiled for trial of that Kind to enabie any man ‘of the least particle of practical telegraph judgment to decide its worthlessness; and If tae managers of the Western Union Teiegraph Company have mace “long, thorough aud expensive triais” of any au- tomatic machinery they ave ever bad the controt ot <a f must be set down as greater ignoramuses than f bad supposed them to be. 3 ‘The Littie automatic machines have been worked without the ieast dinicuity over one and jour wires, strung upon poles bearing four or ive oluer wires, Worked by Olver systema, during fair, ary weatuer aad during a heavy tounder and rain storm, 4. The tests actually made of the Littieautomatic telegraph maciines, in @ single circuit of over 2,000 miles, proved conciumveily that we could transmit steadily torougaout the day, in tuat cireutt, over 200 words per minute, or 12,000 wordé per hour (about five columns of the HERALD); while there 38 authenuc testi. mony to prove that the average rate of speed of Morse operators occupying one wire conitnuaily dur- lug the day does not exceed eleven to fourteen words per minute, or seven to eight hundred words per hour, in single circuits of 250 mules, and it utterly impracticable for the Morse lines to be workea in direct circuits, except under very rare circum- stances of unexceptionably good weather, a greater distance then about 300 mnlies, and wholly impossi- bie Tor thea to ve worked over 600 miles without the aid of the Hicks or some otber repeater, which re- tards the writing to such an extent that should eight or ten repeaters be used, as would be neces- sary to enable the Morse machines to be worked through @ Wire 2,000 mules ip length, the hignest Tate Of speed that conid be huped for would not exceed 400 or 600 words per bour, day by day, 5. Twenty years of unequailed press reporting ana an intimate personal knowledge of ali tue ma- chinery of # newspaper, as printer, publisuer and reporter, and also of the business of tlegraphy, as operator, butider aud owner of lines, and speaking with @ full practical knowledge of the Little auto- matic system, 1 say, without hesitation or equivoca- ton— 1. Thas by the Little antomatio system of tele- @raphy one or one thousand stations can be served simulianeousiy over one wire one hundred or one or two thousand miles in length. 2. We can transmit by our new system one day's proceedings of Congress—say 12,000 words, or five colamos of the H&RALD—to every town, rain or shine, and into every editorial room in every town, connected by @ singie wire irom Washington to Bos- ton, and throughout the West to Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and daplicate 11 every hour of a month, and ail this can be done with the services of one girl in each ofice where the report 13 required to be dropped. This same service could not be per- formed py the Morse or any other system known to the managers of the Western Union Company or the grinder of its hand organ, by the aid of twenty wires and twenty high salaried operators at Washington, and the same or more at every station or editorial room where the report might be required wo be dropped. In other words, with our new autoiatic system, and with the services of onc girl at Wasi- ington, we cau transmit over @ single wire to New York, Boston, Buffaio, Cincimn: Chicago aud St. Louis (and to as many imtermediate siations as may be desired) as much newsi transmitted by twenty high jorse Operators and twenty Wires, the same number of operators being algo required at every report station on the whole line. 3. The advantages as to speed of the Little sutomatic system as compared with the Morse syx- tem for press reporting On short circuits is as one to twelve and on jong circuits, with many drop ata- tons, a8 one to fifteen or twenty. In this stavement I discard the preparation or composing of the report and also copying it out with @ pen at the several drop stations—first, because as We reporter can prepare or compose his report with one of our com- josing tablets as correctly and nearly as rapidly a8 e can Compose With a pen, It is not doubted that editors will instruct thelr reporters to thus prepare their reports and thereby do nineteen-twontieths of the actual work of telegraphing and saving filty to seventy-five per cent of the expenses of telegraplung; and, secondly, 1 discard tue copying With @ pen a the several stations or editortal rooms for the reason that editors and compositors may and no doubt will prefer to take report in the telegrapi characters as It comes from the automatic machines and thereby save valuabletime and the expense of copying, which wiil be whoily unnecessary, as our Machines deliver the report in plain biack cnarac- ters, the roading of which may dé learned by any person of ordinary intelligence in from two to four ours’ time, and with a very smail amount of dally practice he can read our writing a4 well as the best of ordinary manuscript, This is entirely practica- ble with our system, because our te «raph characcers—dots, dashes and spac: are always made with and exactness, which i quite by the Morse hand key or emboastag processes. would eultors prefer to have us prepare or cor their reports to adapt them to our process of trans- mission, and should they also prefer to have the saine deliverea to them in manuscript, the advan- tages, ag to expense, of our Little automatic systen, as compared with the Morse system, would be ag one lo two or two and @ half for reports on short uberring reguiarity ini possivie Bue circuits and few drop stations, and as one to three on lopg circuits and many drop tations, in other words, editors ean be served with very much more promptness, regu- larity and correctness by the automatic than they caa possibly be by the Morse system, aud their reports can be delivered vy a direct circnit over wires leading into their editorial rooms, Uius saving irom forty to sixty minutes now lost in the news copying offices, to say nothing of the expense of manifolding the news, and the actual saving in the cost of serving the press of the country, by our new system, will be trom fifty to eighty per cent, aad as the whole sum now paid by American editors for their telegraph news tails bat lictle short of, and possibly exceeds $800,000 per year, the automatic #ystom will prove a great boon to editors. A saving of $400,000 to $600,000 per annum to wie daly press of the country Tor telegraph news and # saving Of nearly an equal amount now paid to compositors for the uresome and vexatious duty of waiting for the siow | and biundering operations of the Morse ielegraphers uta late hour of the mght, aud finally, after being obliged to go vo press with only @ portion of tae news of the day, advantages such as these and many others that will readily suggest themseives to editors, reporters and printers, are not Iikeiy to be suuted out or covered up by any of the intcrested nonsense Which the Vresident of tue Western Union Company has unwittingiy promulgated in his anaual report, hor dy the brayings of ail tue cooKs and seuilions Who pour out thelr sermi-mourhiy lumontavions over tie subject of automatic tele 15 graphy from tue execuuve rooms of tue great mo- mopoiy, ” ‘The editor of the Journal strives earnestly to er wasters by Tuinly endeavoring w magnify the labors tuctdeut to Lhe automatic system Of tele- graphy amd by sturring over the difficulties of the Morse sysiem by the most absurd perversion of (ruik aad conimon sense, as, for instance, tem responds at any distance to an iations of which the Muger ls capable,” The young- Cot messenger Loy ib tue oMice could tell the editor that such # statement was utterly destitute of truta, and any wan who ever butted his lead agalDst & telegrapu post knows that @ Morse operator capnot Une Lue Morse Ke) rapidly ws he is capauie of doing, even in 4 circuit of 250 miles, While 18 @ Cle oul Much greater (han this the above statement of pol mor Would not be true by more than seventy ‘The managers and friends of the {monopoly weil mucu upon the free.y admitted fact that tbe Morse operator cau sead 9 message to lle deatina- Won tn the same or less time that is required to pre- rest jor transiission by our ayswem, Now, if were Was @ line between two points and there Was only 80 mUCH possidle business to be done between tae two potnts as two Morse operators could traus- mut With all necessary prompiness, { should hardly expect the owners of the live to diwcara the Morse and adopt the Littie system. . bul what will they do when their business tacrea: Will they not have to double their operators, wires and ‘machinery, batteries and all cle implementa of their tradet Of course they wii, aud err: must continue to do it a3 fast as thelr business Increases to any considerabie extent, For instance, for yea er the telegrapl was introduced a singie Wire Was aupie to do the through business on routes Where thirty ure mow ne; 'y Wo serve the pubiic, uu if rata were reduced wo the European standard (aod why not in telegraphing as weil as Ip railroad abd traveiling expeuses?) Oity or even & huudred wires would hardly suffice to do the business Prowptly that would be offered Now, the business thus 18 done on thirty Morse wires could be wuca more promptly dune on three Little automutic wires. Ls it wot clear, therelove, that the Morse people must put up tweut) seven wires, two extra seis of poles, sulators, patieries, Ac, that are not at ali heeded by the Little antomutic system? And of course every Morse wire uiust be manued with @ high salaried operator at every point or station where tue wire is to Le used, Even in the firse cost of the thirty wires, for on y 2,000 out of the 60,000 or 60,000 miles of ne which the Western Union Vom- pany cluuné lo own, the auference would be be- tween $6,000,000 and $7,006,000 invested agulost tae Morse aud in favor of the Littie systeni, tu say nothing of the enormous coat Of Morse a§ COMpared with Litue machiuery, aud the millions of dvilars Yearly in the expense of working and repairing tue iInauy Morse over (ie few Little wires. In the matter of comparauive advantages of the one system over tie other the Lost obtuse DlocK- head connected with or interested in the Weswrn Union Company must admit that where one systems requires ten or iiteen wires and the same number of high saiar cors Lo do the Work Of transmis- y can be better done by another system which reguires for the transoilasion bi sINg.é Wire and 4 singie low salaried operator, the cau bé@ no question a to Which should have preference or wtich will Win i @ race of compe tion. 1Gis quite true that if the republic should not choose to save hail or more of the expense of tele- graphing, by Composing Uitir messages with our sSuugple and easily Understood compusiug tablets, we Sluil be compelied 10 ewploy oral girls besides the one Who operaces the transmitting macuine. Lut iu this respect we way be hkeued bo the HERALD composing wud press departuenis, You put up more or less cases O1 type and put on a greater or less humber of compositors, according to the matter you wish to put into type; and when you get ready, you Sead tue days work of filly or seveuty- ve composivrs to tae ligutniug press, aud it quickly runs off tue hundred thousand copies you require for your pairous, in the same Way we put up as many composing tabiels as We neet to supply copy to our trauiituing motor, and Wus with @ single Wire We uuliize the jabor of teu or twenty young ladies at (acur composing tablets, D. H. CRAIG, New York, March 26, 1870. CHROVCE CORRUPTION OF 1HE INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU. Operations of a Kaown Internal Reve DetauitorInternaal K Raids ia t Southern States—The Meter Businews—The Howiett Cavye—Irresponsible Oficials—Aboli+ tion of tho Internal Revenue Bureau Do- manded. Wasutnaton, March 28, 1870, The Batley case and other internal revenue troubles must not be regarded as anytoing new or Perhaps serious. They are nothing but external in- ications of the chronic corruption that pervades our entire internal revenue syatem, which wili occa- sionally appear in spite of the most vigorous appli- cation of plasters and other external remedies by tho ofticlal quacks who control the bureau. One of the moat startling features of the Bailey frauds is the brazen-facedneas of the defence. The lopby organ of Saturday puta forth the following:— When Mr. Batley was first made Collector he sent for Mr. Clulds and appointed hima deputy, Wuea ne found that Bis abstraction of government funds was likely to become kuowa to Mr, Cilds be volun- tarily confided to Lim the fact thar he was a de- fauiter, omens, that he would surely make it right if {t could be concealed for a year. Mr. Uhilda, having the utmost confidence in tne man whom he baa befriended for so many years, and whom ho loved @# his own gon, consented to keep the secret and to aid lim tn “covering it.” This he did, re- luctautly but faithiuily, constantly urging bis friend to make good the amount. To the lust be Nad faih in Mr. Batley, and does not now believe that he ta- tended to defraud the government. In other words, Mr. Bailey merely “borrowed” from the government, intending to make it up with the proceeds of bis raids upon the business men of New York! We are told by tue lobby organ tuat Mr. Balley “did not intend to defraud the government,”” but it can scarcely put on the face to pretend inat he aid not defraud and rob the business men of New York, whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose. I merely mention the Balley case in passing because itis near home. Itts of very little importance in comparison with others, as can be proved by the files of the Internai Revenue Bureau, For downright wholesale robbery we must look at the operations of the internal revenue officers in our Western and Southern States. Take the How! ett case, for example. It exhibits # sample of tue general operations of (he internal reven uc officers as Well as any. Paricy L. Howlett was @ well-to-do distiller in Sangamon county, Il, about tue sort of a mane collector Who wanted to make raidée for the purpose of ‘covering in” defalcations would iike to see. The act of Congress of March, 1867, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury ‘‘to adopt, procure aud prescribe’ meters for ascertaining the strength, quality or amount of spirits subject to tax, On the 14th day of May, the same year, the Collecior of In- teraal Kevenué ‘demanded of Mr. Howlett the pay- ment of $2,500 for two meters, the estimuted cost of which was, according to circular, $1,000 each, stat- ing at the time that the meters couid not be manu. faccured and delivered in less thau six months from that date, Mr. Howlett expressed his willingness and anxi to procure and pay for the meters, but remonstrr against the wholly unlawful exaction of part pay- (six Months im advance of delivery or even of manufacture, aud especially against tue exaction of $500 above the price; and tinaily, knowing thera was no law to entorce ‘it, refused to pay in advance the amount demanded. Tho next day the Collector closed the distillery, and shortly atterwacds, upon some pretext, seized 10; and to this day Mr, Howlett has been unable to re- gain his property. ‘fne case was tried in the Uulted States Circuit Court and the seizure adjudged legal, ‘tne Collector prayed the court for probabie cause, which was refusec by the court, Neveriheless tue Interual eveoue Bureau 6 keeps possession of the property by some book or crook that I cannot Jearn, and Mr. Howlett, unless he gets his rights, is aruined man, His case is no worse than teas of thousands of other men whose business has been destroyed aad ruined because they would not wul- ingly submit to the illegal and arbitrary exactions of irresponsible and corrupt internal revenue officials. I need not muituply exampies, since New York bas been for Months past edided by the spectacie vi a kaoown internal revenue defaulter rawing among your own business men for money to “cuver”? lis defaicationa, In the southern States the internal revenue officers are accompanied ta their raids by squads of cavairy, aud shetr reports to Commissiouer Deiano of property seized or uestroyed aud lives taken or pot in jeopardy read very much like the accounts of British tax gatherers im irejand and india. It 18 unquestionably the duty o: Commissioner Deiano to see that the revenue does not sultr fiom any ax interpretation of the law, but many of his rulings are alike arbitrary and illegat and give his Irresponstole subordinates every possible opportu- nity Lo blackmail the bovest and industrious, His attempt to lobpy through Congress the resolution extending the income tax another year was boia indefensible and arbitrary, as are very many of Lia deeisions. ‘There is one plain and simple remedy for all our internal revenue troubles, Abolish tle whole sy tem, with its myriad of janizaries, and apportion tie collection of whatever mternal tax the nations! gov- ernment may require among tue several States. ‘This is what it must come to, The sooner ive bewer. WareR FOR SAN FRancisco.—There ts b Legisiature of Califoruia @ proposition to furnish (ue city Of San Francisco with water from tbe artesian weils at Sau Jose. A party of capilausts Will al ouce proceed to bore the wells ana lay pipes if the Legis- favure wil grant them the right of way, A San Frau. cisco paper says:—We look upon this ag Inch more Jeasivie than the Lake Jahoe project, even if tuere were no conflict as to the right to take the water of this State, We beileve that all the water pecessary for ail coming time can bo got at San Jose and it will certainly be good, and Will cost only # Small amount In comparison with the otaer projects that have been talked of Pure ead Queay Water 18 & great Deca maby in every cll.