The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1871, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. pony EUS eee eeeere t—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—News trom Washington—War Clouds in South Carolina: Tue White and Black Clans Gather- ing tor Battle—The Coal Troubles: The Miners Retur. to Work on the Old Basis. 4@—The Foster-Putnam Murder: The Prisoner Arraigned at the Bar of tie Court of Uyer = ‘Terminer—The Towanda Tragedy—The ows > cution of Two Negroes in South ‘aval Intelligence—Popular Edu- ace Cars—Political Intelligence— eaith Mutters—Pardonea by the Goveruor— way Robbers Captured. G—Yachting: Another Addition tothe New York , Yacht Club Fleet—A Ratiroad Arraigned— pong Dignity—A Greasy Gathermg—The ity BO tae eae od in the Courts— The Erie Railway War—Hawkins’ Zouayes— Marriages and Deaths. G—Editorisis: Leading Article, “The Jomt High Commission—Prospect of @ Great Treaty of PEditorials © “Wonalied 4pupcements. aye, Frauce: Herald Special Reports from Paris and Versailies—Jamaica: Herald a Re- ‘ton—The Darien Ship Canal— tseellancous Telegrams—Amusements—Busi- mess Notices, Financia! and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Matlers—The Sad Suicide at the Stevens House—Furious Fauny Wright—Journalistic Notes—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements, 40—Europe: The Positions of the Contendi: Outside Paris; Marshai MacMahon’s Pian for Breaking into Paris; Dreadiul Suffering of ‘Women avd Chiidren—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisemeats. '1—Advertisements. J 2—Adveruisemcnts. rts from Kin; Forces DgapLock aT Harkissure.—There is a feadiock in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Bend for the “Boss” and he will make it all right in the twiokling of a bedpost. , Two Necro MiritiaMEN were executed at Wnion Court House, 8. C., on Friday last for the murder of a white man named Stevens. en other negroes were hanged some time by masked men for the same crime, thus making twelve lives in all taken for the murder of one person—certainly a complete and fear- ful vengeance. Tuk Park Commissioners met and reor- ganized yesterday, Mr. Sweeny being again ‘chosen President. They transacted a good deal of regular business during the meeting. The Park Commissioners have done good work among our city garden spois, and we are glad to see that they are intent on doing even better still. The children of the present gen- eration will rise up and call them blessed even if taxpayers and radicals bless them in another way at present. Tur Paris CoMMUNE AND THE DesTRUOTION oF Monuments.—A despatch from Paris says that the Column in the Place Vendéme is to be Gemolished on the 8th day of May, and that fill the statucs and other vestiges of the mo- narchical régime are to be destroyed on the fame day. We have no reason to be surprised pl this, for we believe the Commune and its Patellites to be capable of anything in the way atrocity: The 8th of May, then, is to be a holiday of destruction with the Reds, and while one gang is destroying the Column the others Will be demolishing nearly all that is beautiful in Paris, They may, and probably will, wipe ut the Tuileries and the Louvre, and when their hands are fairly in the work they had better keep on and destroy all of Paris—make big bonfire of it, and when the torch is ap- lied to the last building and it is fairly on if they will only jump into the flames may be yet some hope for France. Femare Scrrrace is tue Hovseg on Jommons.—The irrepressible champions of) an’s rights have again introduced the mestion of female suffrage into the House of mons. Mr. Mills, the prime mover of the ion, wae, however, not there, or else we ld have heard some forcible arguments favor of the proposed measure, As it is, the bill fell through after ome lively and interesting discussion, Mr. Gladstone did his best to kill it by pro- posing compromise—a sort of qualified female ~ Buffrage, which would be simply no suffrage at oa He recommended that women should vote y proxy—that is t say, their busbands or le protectors should vote fer them. Another aker called female suffrage ‘‘an outrage se womanhood,” and gave thereby the coup de grice to thg bill. But the advocates of ale suffragé” will never sny fail, and the nestion will probably be revived again and Dgain in Parliament until British legislators will concede the demands of the gtrvong-minded portion of the fair nox NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 187.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Investment of Parie=Progreas of the | The Erie Suits in the Federal Courts. “Sartor Resartus” im the Custom Flonse. The Joint Wigh Commission—Prospeet of a Great Treaty ef Peace. We have gréat expectations of a satisfactory treaty from the Joint High Commis:ion—a treaty which will ‘mark the begining of @ new epoch of peace, barmony and prosperity, not only to the two great commercial nations directly concerned, but to all the civilized States of the globe, The heavy work of the Commission, we understand, is finished; the secondary details are nearly all settled, and the reci- procities agreed upon will withia a few days be ready for submission in due form to the Senate at Washington and the government at London for ratification. General Grant, in expectation of this treaty, has called an extra session of the Senate to meet on the 10th instant, and our Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, has made his arrangements to retire from the Cabinet on the Ist of June; from which we infer that, as Secretary of State and as a mem- ber of the High Commission, he expects that by the Ist of June the treaty in question will have become an established law between the two countries, justifying his official retire- ment with the public approval of ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,” The labors of this High Commission have embraced the settlement of the international disputes and embarrassments connected with the Newfoundland and Nova Scotia fisheries, the navigation of the St. Lawrence, a boundary question on the Pacific coast and the Alabama claims, From the various reports and rumors set afloat touching the arrangements and en- gagements entered into by the high contracting parties, we conclude that upon the fisheries question the Commission have agreed that American fishermen shall have substantially the same rights as her Majesty's subjects in the sea fisheries of her North American prov- inces to the shore line; that her Majesty's fishermen shall have corresponding privileges along our Atlantic coast down to Delaware Bay, and that a board of arbitrators—one to be appointed by President Grant, one by Queen Victoria, and the third, or umpire, by these two, or, if they cannot agree, he is to be chosen by the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary—and these three arbitrators are to determine the difference in cash between these fishery concessions on the one side and the other, and the difference is to be paid in cash by the party having the best of the bar- gain. Is not this a fair arrangement? We think it is, Under existing treaty stipulations American catchers of cod and mackerel in those wonderful cod and mackerel placers of the Gulf anf Banks of Newfoundland are pro- hibited fishing within a marine league from the shore. To make this exclusion worse, the New Dominion authorities have construed the treaty line as ranning from headland to head- land across their smaller gulfs and bays, inside of which our fishermen cannot venture without danger of seizure and confiscation. General Butler, in behalf of his fishing con- SUtUEUWsS, UES vurcEvCHTa Wat Upos thie ques tion, and to quict him and his belligerent fishermen the Joint High Commission have agreed that his fishermen shall have full sweep, even to tho shore line of her Majesty’s provinces, and certain shore privileges to dry their fish, &c.; but that between these and similar concessions granted on our side we shall pay the difference on a fair cash valua- tion, General Butler, and likewise General Banks, it is said, will oppose this arrangement with all their might; but still we think it ought to be, and will be, satisfactory to the Senate. Next, in regard to the navigation of the St. Lawrence, it is agreed that we shall have the same righta as the Canadians, in paying the tolls of the St. Lawrence canals. To our readers who do not know exactly what this means we may say that the St. Lawrence, not- withstanding the tremendous volume of water which it bears to the sea, is not a navigable river between Lake Ontario and Montreal, in consequence of its rapids. Flatboats, pirogues and steamboats frequently descend these rapids at great risks, but no sort of craft can ascend them, These rapids are named the Long Sault (twelve miles), the Gallopades (where the descending boat seems to be gal- loping like a horse over the waves), the Cedars (from the numerous cedars there among the rocky islands), the Cascades and the Lachine rapids, the worst of the line, just above Montreal. Around all these rapids our British American neighbors, at the cost of many millions of money, have constructed great canals, with walls of stone block equal in size to the stones in the Egyptian pyramids, and thua, including the Wellaud Canal, the rapids of the St. Lawrence and the Niagara Falls themselves are surmounted by vessels from Montreal or from Liverpool. The British concessions, therefore, in regard to the naviga- tion of the St. Lawrence, are all that we can ask, The Northwestern Pacific coast boundary dispute is about a little island in the dividing straits of San Juan de Fuca, which to a great extent commands those straits. This island the High Commission surrender to the United States, which is all we demand in that quarter. The main difficulty of those Alabama claims, then, isall of this budget of difficulties that is left, and upon this the High Commission have adopted the saving alternative of arbitra- tion. A board of arbitration of five members, impartially constituted as possible, is to deter- mine our claims against England arising from the depredations upon our commerce, during our late rebellion, of such Anglo-rebel cruisers as the Alabama, the Florida and Shenandoah; and another and similar board of arbitrators is to determine the claims of British suljects upon the United States for property seized or destroyed during our late rebellion, &c, And what plan calculated to be fair and satisfactory to both sides could be devised better than this we are at a loss to imagine, It has been reported that these British claims will overtop our Alabama claims to the extent of twenty or thirty mil- lions, in embracing losses for slaves, losses of blockade runners, and, peradventure, losses from the rebel cotton loan, But slaves are not property in England or under English law, and while Lord Jobn Russell, during our rebellion, warned those English blockade runners that there was no law for them, our own government has settled that rebel cotton loan in the repudiation of all rebel debts. We dare gay that Mr, Secretary Fish, if those Canadian Fenian raid claims have been touched upon in. the delibera- tions of the High Commission, has setiled them in a simple reference to the claims of American neutrality in this business. It is given out, however, that Mr. Senator Sumner will stoutly oppose this Alabama set- tlement.on the ground that it does not touch the main question—England’s great offence to us in connection with our rebellion, in the matter of belligerent rights. Against the Clarendon-Johnson treaty Mr. Sumner con- tended that England, tn her application of belligerent rights to Jeff Davis, was morally responsible to us to the extent of at least a thousand millions of dollars, and that she must at least apologise for this great wrong. For ten years she has stubbornly contended that in this thing of belligerency she did no wrong according to law, and it is evident that if we stick to Mr. Sumner’s legal argument as our ultimatum upon this question we never can have a settlement short of a war, turninz, perhaps, our own country into political confu- sion, and deranging the affairs of-the whole civilized world. General Grant, then, in dropping this ex- treme demand of Mr. Sumner, has given the cue to our side of the High Commission, whereby we have the agreement indicated in a practical, common sense business view of the facts and the situation. The treaty, we understand, will. embrace a pro- vision defining the duties of the high contracting parties as neutrals in the future, and abandoning only that extreme issue of Mr. Sumner, upon which there can be no retroactive agreement. We think that upon the issues presented, and upon the points we have indicated, the treaty agreed upon by the Joint High Commission, as we understand it, covers the whole ground practically in dis- pute, and presents a plan of settlement fair and honorable to both sides. What, then, becomes of “manifest destiny?’ We believe in the manifest continental destiny of the United States; but we are sirong and secure in our position and inoreasing steength in peace, and we can bide our time. “Let us have peace,” then, for with peace, in co-opera- tion with England and the new empire of Germany, and France restored to her senses, we rule the commerce and civilization of the globe; and the moral weight of our inatitu- tions meantime will carry the cause of popular rights even in Ireland, ‘‘Let .us have peace,” and the United States, England and Russia have but to say the word in order to establish the law of civilization even in the empire of China. Looking to these grand resulis, we have high hopes of a new and glorious era of prevailing peace from the labors of the Joint High Commission. The Prosperity ef the Herald. Some of our contemporaries are much excr- cised about the wondrous prosperity of the Heratp. Sixty columns of advertisements, given inthe one day and printed the next, make a show which, under the same condi- tions, haa had no parallel, so far as we know, in the history of journalism, Quadruple sheets during this busy season have been with us more a necessity thanever. Oar con- temporaries know and feel, althongh they do not confess it, that our enormous advertising patronage is a substantial vote of confidence in the Heratp. Why the New York public should stand by us and cling to us in this man- ner it is not difficult to answer. We stand by them and by the whole American péople. We print a great newspaper. In getting it up we spare no expense. Qur money is freely given out; our agents in condéquende Are nilbierous and everywhere—at least where they ought to be—and we insist that they shall not be beaten. In whatever point the interest of the public centres our agent is there; and whether it be in London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, or in the heart of China or on the heights of Abyssinia, our agent must be ahead of all rivals. As cost is no hindrance his difficulty isthe less. This, however, is not all. The Heratp calls no man, no party, no creed, master. It is its pride, its glory to be inde- pendent. Being independent, we have the less difficulty in being impartial, If our views of men and movements in the political, social, mercantile and religious worlds do not always please, they are at least our views, and that is their value. The New York public and the American people as a whole havo learned to trust us, because they know that whatever others may do we shall not betray their interests. Our enormous advertising patron- age is not the principal proof of the Hzratp’s prosperty and power. More potent proof is to be found in the fear of dishonest politicians, in the dread of tricky Cabinets, in the watch- fulness of nations. In certain matters our voice is as powerful in London as in New York, in Pekin as in Washington. If we know how t6 make a great newspaper, how to re- flect the times and to improve them by the process of reflection, that may be a reason for admiration, but it ought not to be a cause of jealousy. Much as the Heratp has done and is doing, we look forward to greater victories, because we feel the impulses and outgoings of increasing strength. The Street Car Murder. It is unfortunate that no great reform in civilized communities can be reached nor any great wrong righted without some person or persons first becoming victims. It is so in the case of the murdered Mr. Putnam, That the management of our public conveyances has been entrusted to improper hands has for a long time been notorious, agd it perhaps re- quired some signal act like that perpetrated by the murderer Foster to arouse our citizens to the necessity of adopting some measures tending to protect themselves from assassina- tion ‘and their wives and danghters from insult. Now that the community is fully awakened on the subject we trust the agita- tion will not be allowed to cease until the city railroad companies are in some manner made responsible for the good conduct of their employés, particularly conductors and car drivers, Moreover, we trust our authorities and criminal prosecutors will take timely pre- cautions to see that justice is not cheated of its due in the case in hand, It is understood that money will not be wanted, nor legal talent de- ficient, to shield Foster from the punishment he 80 richly merits, An example against raffian- ism must be made, and a better subject could not be secured than in the persgn of the Murderer gow ip oupieds, Siege Operations. Marshal MacMahon is steadily pushing bis | operations against the positions of the in- surgent forces. He is giving the forts upon the south of Paris particular attention, and the assaults upon different points are resisted with great stubborness, The bitter enmity existing between the troops of the government and those df the Commune render the contest a most bloody one, the latter having lost in killed, by the bayonet alone, in the attack upon Clamart, over three hundred men. No quartor is given by the former and none is asked by tho latter. The fight is hand to hand, breast to breast, and ends only in depth or a mortal wound. There will probably be no attempt at an assault or nearer approach to the city in any direction until after the southern’ forts are reduced, The minor engagements on the west of Paris amount to nothing, comparatively, A few affairs of oat- posts have ooourred at Neuilly, but both par- ties remained in thelr positions, and there is nothing to {ndicate at present a further ad- vance in that direction, The heavy bombard- ment against Fort d’Issy is maintained, and the others to the eastward receive a full share of attention from the government batteries. The news of the surrender of all of them or their being carried by storm may be received at any moment, and when it occurs there will bean important change In the programme. The siege guns then will be advanced to within easy breaching distance of the enceinte and the southern part of the city will come in for its share of projectiles. The prospect of peace appears to be as far removed as ever, and there is evidently no chance of its being brought about except at the point of the bayonet. Austria and the Concordat. A cable despatch, which we print this morning, announces the fact that the Minister of Instruction in the Austrian Reichsrath yesterday declared that the government had taken a position in favor of the abolition of the Concordat with Rome, It is added that the Reichsrath will now consider the practical consequences to the empire of the dogma of infallibility. Remembering what Austria was up until 1858-9, we mugt regard this piece of news as full of hope. Sadowa gave Von Beust power, and all honest men must admit that his influence has gone on the liberal side. Dr. Dullinger, as all our news has shown, is as much a favorite in Vienna as he is in Munich. This expression of feeling in the Austrian Reichsrath against the Concordat and not in favor of infallibility means that Rome is no longer to be regarded as the world’s centre. Francis Joseph to-day is a wiser man than he was in 1848, and Francis Joseph, with his larger wisdom, says, with the fall consent of his subjects, ‘No more Concordats.” Italy united and strong, and not in sympathy with Papal sovereignty; France defeated, demoralized and a world’s shame; Protestant Germany omnipotent— all these things have opened the eyes of Aus- trian statesmen and exercised some influence on the chief of the House of Hapsburg. Time was when the Pope of Rome distrusted the people; time was when the present Emperor of Austria hated the people; but immense as was the power of the one and the other, the popular cause has so been adding victory to victory that the Pope and the Kaiser have both found it necessary to court popular favor. The poor Pope, an old man, worn out and fond of rest, bas unhappily committed him- self and his cause to iofallibility. Francis Joseph, yet comparatively a young man, finds out and admits his mistakes. The attitude of Italy, the condition of France, the gathering strength of the new German empire, all give significance to this Austrian movement, and the lesson is that the Papacy in its ancient sense isno more. The first Napoleon humbled but used the Papacy; the treaties of Vienna gave it a new point of departure; the second French empire saved it aud propped it; the Dillinger movement has all but killed it, and unless the Pope and his friends make up their minds to make concessions and chime in with popular sentiment the Papacy will be put in perma- uent trouble. If the Papacy is wise the opportunity is not yet lost. The South Carolina Tempest. The hot bloods of the Palmetto State are forming rifle clubs and organizing volunteer militia companies and regiments, Our corre- spondent, in his special despatch, says they have been chartered as clubs only, but some have armed themselves and others have humbugged Governor Scott into letting them have arms from the State arsenals, They have noavowed purpose in thus organizing, but it seems to be the accepted opinion among the old scions of chivalry there, who may be excused for not comprehending that a revolution has passed over the land, that tWeir sole aim and object is to fight and sweep out of existence the “nigger” regiments that compose the State National Guard. South Carolina has always been an inconsiderate and thought- less State, as her nullification acts under Jackson and her ordinance of secession under Buchanan have fully shown, and such @ reinauguration of civil war may actually be in contemplation among her youthful Hotspurs, As the able-bodied negroes number thirty thousand more than the able- bodied whites the proposed opening of hostili- ties is more honorable to their pluck than to their discretion, The United States troops seem to be concentrating in large force in Columbia and Charleston, doubtless in pur- suance of the President’s Ku Klux proclama- tion, and we may safely depend upon them to maintain peace among the people. Foster, THe MURDERER OF PUTNAM, was arraigned in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, but his counsel asked that he be allowed a short delay, as he intended to put in a special plea, Judge Cardozo finally con- sented (o postpone the case until to-day, when a special plea, probably in reference to tho jurisdiction of the Court and looking to a change of venue, in consequence of the excited state of the public mind in this city, will be offered, The lawyers engaged for the defence of Foster are among the best that the bar of our criminal courts affords, and they are not likely to allow any technicality or quibble to escape them which may by any possibility offer their client tho slightest loophole of agape, There is still balm in Gilead for Heath and Raphael. The contempt case in which Jay Gould, claimant of thirty thougand shares of Erie stock—the property, as counter claimed, of Heath and Raphael, English stockholders— argued on Tuesday last before Judge Blatch- ford, inthe United States Circuit Court, was decided yesterday by a determination on the part of the Court to issue am order for the ar- rest of the recalcitrant Gould. The original demand, and on which the suit before the Master in Equity is based, is for sixty thousand and fifty-four shares of Erie stock. The sudden disappearance of these shares, and the positive refusal of the Erie directors to account for them on their. book returns or otherwise, instigated the litigation which has been going on in the United States courts for several weeks, A clear statement of all the points in the case, what Heath and Raphael claim and the ground on which their claims are resisted on the part of the Erie Company, was given in a Heratp editorial some days ago, in addition to the evidence reported on each day of the examination. After a most exhaustive process of questioning and cross-questining on the part of gounsel, and of unblushing prevarication and evasion on the part of the principal witness, Jay Gould, » deadlock was reached, and the Master foiled— bjs orders being contemned and resisted at every point—was compelled to appeal to the Court. Counsel brought up the question on a motion that an attachment be issued for the arrest of Gould for contempt of the Master’s order and his detention until such time as he shall produce in court the books which, it is supposed, will give some light as to the disposition of the missing stock and in what way a new issue of stock to cover defictencies was manipulated. After hearing counsel at great length on all the questions in- volved it was yesterday ascertained that Judge Blatchford will this morning issue an order of attachment for the arrest of Mr. Gould, Whether this course will have the effect of bringing matters to a satisfactory finale to the English stockholders remains to be seen. It is, however, certain that a crisis in the case will be reached in 4 day or two. The Darien Ship Canal—Prospects for Its Constraction. Although the survey of the Napip! route for the ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien has not resulted as favorably as it was hoped it would, still we have no doubt that ulti- mately a practicable route will be found. Even the one which has just been surveyed, and the summit-determined to be six hundred and twelve feet high, may yet be used by means of locks. The Tuyra route, which has still to be explored, may turn out the best and afford all the facilities for rapid and economi- cal construction. Notwithstanding the many difficulties that have been encountered by the different exploring expeditions sent to the isthmus, aod the natural impediments in the way of carrying out the enterprise, we yet have every confidence that the canal will be made. For a long time it was thought impossible to build the Panama Railroad; but energy, perseverance and money overcame every obstacle, and it was completed. So it will be with the ship canal; if not made at one point of the isthmus it will be at another, but it must and will be constructed, sooner or later. The special tele- gram from the Heratp correspondent with the surveying expedition informs us that Com- mander Selfridge pronounces his exploration @ success, and suggests a series of locks on either side anda tunnel through the summit in order to make the canal all that will be required, Before believing this immense work necessary we await further information re- specting the width of this summit. It may be only a narrow ridge, descending rapidly on either side, and if this is the case the difficulty to be overcome will not be as great as we are at present led to suppose, It will not do to say that it cannot bedone. Americans believe in no euch assertion. They will not let the matter rest until ships are passing from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The Coal Troubles—Almost the End. The coal troubles have substantially ended, - the Wilkesbarre men having already returned to work on the old basis, and the Pottsville men having signified their willingness to abide by local arbitration, which is equivalent to following the example of their Wilkesbarre friends, Thus the miners, after all their long and earnest fight, have lost heavily. Some of the cherished principles of the trades union, founded upon false premises, however, as wo have always held in our friendly advice to the miners, have been overthrown, and their long-continued idlenesss has eaten up their funds. The combinations of capital, railroads, legislatures and courts have been too powerful for them. It was an unequal match from the first; but if ever oppressed workman or downtrodden nation had right upon its side in rebellion the miners had right upon theirs in their strike. The Interests of all the people of the Atlantic sea coast were directly identified with them in the struggle, and the great powers of railroads and mono- polies have been sufficient, for the present at least, to overpower public sentiment and public interest. The Scranton men, it is stated in our special despatch, are moody and sullen, They have not yet given in, and still have a faint hope of some concession from the operators, If they get none our correspondent intimates that riot and revolution may ensue, and the property of the operators and the mine owners will be: likely to suffer severely. Mon driven almost to desperation by hunger, as these men are, are dangerous enemies; and we think that the companies may yet find it to their in- terest to offer at once some generous conces- sions. It is worth something pecuniarily to have willing workers instead of quarry slaves in their mines, and a generous concession may not only prevent riot and destruction of property, but it may insure them more cheer- ful and, consequently, more zealous laborers, Tux Conunprum o¥ THE CONNECTICUT Ex.zctton will probably be solved next week. Tho Legislature now awaits an investigation into the alleged false counts in New Haven and Enfield to decide who is Governor of that distracted State, and thus put an end to the frenzy of the militiamen who have been wailing over the postponement of their fnnual pargde day, -plush at the other. The distinction between a uniform anda livery is very fine, though not always as finely discriminated, Qutside of that imported class known as liveried servants there are few here wearing dress distinctive of their occupation who will submit to the term. Let @ man wear a garb in any regulation cut and color and his first endeavor is to convince himself that it is a uniform; this once done, it is not difficult getting others to believe it. The soldier is at one extreme of those com- demned to prescribed apparel; the flunky in Between these, the ona bearing a badge of honor, the other a badge of servitude, there are many intermediary grades, and what makes the drawing of strict li difficult lies in the fact-tbat social station is n criterion, The courtier, for instance, in his gold-slashed coat, deny it how he may, is as much in livery as his coachman. The true in- terpretation, perhaps, is, that he thus forced to dreas, no matter what his rank, who serves a single direct master is in livery, while he who serves a people ora nation wears & uni- form, The question of those who are fluakies at heart does not enter into this article. For the last week deep agitation has been caused among some two hundred and forty of Uncle Sam's public servants. These are the night watchmen and inspectors of the New York Custom House, Thomas Murphy— Honest Tom—in the simplicity of his soul, ger- minated the idea that such important person- ages should wear a uniform. Hence muck bitterness among the inspectors, both of the day and night order. They are abashed an aghamed at the idea of donning what they call a livery. Fools! In their anger they forget that they are only asked to take the position which of right belongs to them—uni- formed protectors of the import interesta of the United States. There is, however, some- thing in their dislike to assuming a dress dis- tinctive of their occupation which has two separate causes, The first is in a certain measure henorakle, because it {s a result of one of the best steps in modern civilization—namely, the in- stinctive aversion to the sumptuary laws of medieval times in the matter of dress. Un- fortunately for the inspectors, this reason has not much weight in their course of thought. It is centred in the second alternative of their dislike to a uniform—namely, that they do not wish to be known outside the circle of their official duties for what they are. A simple little badge is so easily put in the pocket, and then our Custom House inspector can become “a man as other men are.” Of course Tom’s hon- est, or Honest Tom's, idea is to keep the public eye upon them when they are on duty, to make them an object of respect to incoming foreign sea captains, and make them proud of their positions generally and anxious to main- tain it respectably at all times. Now, io this sartorial side issne there are many points worth the settling, The color of the coat will not so much matter; but it is sincerely to ba hoped that pockets will be peremptorily for- bidden, On biblical grounds the night watch- men should wear a flame-colored garment, and the day inspectors white or a light gray. They should, in fact, be pillars of fire te smugglers by night and a cloud by day. This is thrown out as a suggestion; for we mean no offence to the heaven-tioted sky-blua which some of the inspectors have in theie mind's eye, Lest the public should deem we have a sinister intention in the matter wo can freely say that we bave no knowledge of Honest Tom having a contract for the inspeo- tora’ caps in perspective. Mr. Murphy was aa army contractor for head gear, it is true, but the two hundred and forty inspectors would not offer a fair target for the meanest specu- lator. : If this uniform question be once fairly started we cannot for- the life of us see why the poor inspector, at four dollars a day, or the humbler night watchman, at three, should alone be marked out to public notice. Why not Honest Tom himself? Should he not strut in some- thing indicative of his great publio value, some pumpkins color, say? Should not the newly-appointed Naval Officer roll like the bil- lows of the ocean in a suit of sea green? Should not the Surveyor take men’s and ves- sels’ measures in a uniform of measuring tape? Should not the Appraiser calculate hiy duties on merchandise in a suit of tariff regulations printed in large type? Should not Mr. Ter- williger, Honest Tom’s secretary, biad himself up in bandages of official red tape? Should not Mr. Murphy's porters have some outward resemblance to Guin- ness’) XX? Why stop at the Custom House? There are other public servants who want labelling, too, such as the Internal revenue, The collectors should be draped in something of a greenback device, the asses- sors in a color between cigars and whiskey, the deputy assessors in blank income tax forms, the gaugers in a wooden armor of gaugers’ rods, We leave to the fertile minds of our public-spirited citizens the carrying of this idea to the highest positions- in the country. It has a cogency which none but the narrow= minded can waive. Pity, indeed, it were that a public servant should feel this movement antagonistic to his reputation, They should not cry with Adam in ‘‘As You Like It”— Oh, what a world ts this, when what ls comely Envenoms him that bears tt! They must remember Ruy Blas’ reproach te hia master, “‘I wear the dress of a lackey; you have the soul of one,” and on this build their self-esteem, With regard to city officials, there is « difficulty in putting this uniforming Idea into practice. When a man holds say six offices how could be humanely be expected to wear six uniforms? It might be gotten over by a citizen wearing a scavenger’s sleeves, @ policeman’s club, a deputy sheriff's body to his coat, a registry office pants, a coroner’a office hat, and 80 on. There would be some curious apparels seen in Gotham, and the pub. lic might arrive at a just idea of who pays for the “motley” and who wears it, Here is a new plank for an enterprising political party to plant ia their platform. Who bids? Ooran Penny Postaar.—It appears from the debaje in the British Parliament on the reduction of ocean postage to one penay, as on land in England, that the Gladstone gov- qroment resists the change, on the ground that it would cause too great a loss to the Post { Omice Department, Tho Mjniairy defoated the, SC L_t#,. lle