The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1871, Page 6

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M, 745 Broadway -— TRIPLE SHEET New York, friday, November 17, i871. corre: OF TO-DAWS HERALD, Page, me 4 Sik 4—Advoriisements, I—Adverti is. 3-Brookly Ballots: What the Police Sa What Did; Meeting oi the City Canva ers eae in the Board of County Canvass ers. d den on the Sitasuon—Swi: dependence—A Buli on the Chicago Homicide x Ni ance Company—Ptel 4—Munic: ‘on Vass ; e “‘Counting-In” Process; the ent of Docks Indiguant—Tie New arter—Tihe New Reformers—Meeting of mer of Commerce—The Viaduct Com: | et Squeiched—Labor Troubles in he Uptown Man Trap—dew Pub. | ications Received—Postponemeat of the irot- | Ung Yesterday—Horse Notes—iie Cholera in the Bay. w York City News—Help for the Orphans—<eriou, Charge Agiinst a Conduc. | ma Kulung of Mr. Ward-A Petrifled iy. i Sherman Sermonizing: His Views on War, | Peace and Public Order—The Compliments of | tH Aincricans of Paris to Minister Wash- barne—The Gran] Duke Alexis—the Gas Compsnies Abandoning the City to Darke | hess—Anotner Hovoxen Outrage—A Uridge | Knocked oa-.| Cut of Gear—bioody “1. Army Intelligence: Sew Democrauc Departur Men's Democratic Club— Thomas M. jethodist You orwood, the New United State: Senator from Georgia. 6—Exiitori. Leading Article, ‘our National Fina —-The Duty of Congress on the Suvjec.’’—Auusement Apnouucements. — KEuitoriais (Coudnued from Stxti Page)—Rome Tt Sweep of ‘the Gale Fatal Conseq of | elegrams irom France, | , Turkey and e— | ina and Janan—Caving in ¢ e | ate . Pa.—Misceilaneous ; gence --\iews of } ness Notices. of Russia in Mai Wealth sTeatness; the Emp a i ‘rhe Hoonac Tannel; Tae Progress and Pros pecis of the Mammoth Work—Wilson Indua- | trial School—Music and the Drama—tne is | Cape of ihe Counterfeivers—ihe Fisk Libel— | A Runaway Slave Lieutenaut Governor of | in Jones’ Wood—Religtous Joy and | Newark—Taylor’s ‘Tricks and Fa- | gin’s Fiendishuess—Pinaucial and Commer. Reports—Domestte Markets—National | Statistics—Chieago and the Money Chang ers—hicao Insurance Policy Hoiders— St. Mary's Hospital Fair—Railroad Laad- Grabbers Check mated—\ Painful Elopement— vhe Canai Boat Homiciae—Marriages aud Deaths, 40—Wasiingion: The British-American Ciaims Commiss.on Ready for Business; Anoth sion Ageat in bie--The Storm in the | East—Lake Disaste Shipping inte!ligence — Advert: 4, 11—Proceedings in the Courts—The Pennsylvania Wild Chil iren—A Wild Woman in Vennsyiva- nia—A Mysterious Hutinthe Maine \voods— Adverti emcuts 19—Adveriisemeats. —- Lo, tHe Poor Inpiay’s Revexon!—The Piegane sending the smallpox into Philad:i- phia in packazes of buffalo robes. ADaap Favre tx Brooxiyn—The failure ‘of “Boss” McLaughlin this time by countiog to elect al! his men, The republicans come in for their share of the honors and the profits by the count. Tar Cieverann Leader thinks there would b> danger of the Central Park being turned into a cabbage garden in case Horace Grecley should be appointed one of the Park Commis- sionera. Horace is not such a cabbage head, Tur Cricaco Poricy Hopes are begin- ning to fancy that it is unfair on the part of the bankrupt Eastern insurance companies to offer so small a percentage in the way of settlement, and @ committeo is coming oa to see that the assets are equitably distributed. Tar Newark Journal is out hot and heavy for Joel Parker as the democratic candidate for the Presidency. It says “he can beat the Washington radical ring as he beat the New Sersey Railroad ring”—and, no doubt, make the welkin ring beside. Conunprum roa Coxtractors.—The Phila- elphia Ago bas received no answer to its question, why seventy-five cents per square yard is given for digging the foundations of public buildings in that city when the same work was done for the Masonic Hall for thirty-five cents per yard? The same ques- tion might be put wiih great propriety to the contractors for digging the {cuodation of the proposed new Court House ia Harlem, Hype Pauk, near Scranton, Pa., was the scene of a remarkable occurrence yesterday. A portion of the town, extending along the main street from Fellows’ Hall to the Post Office, caved in, sinking about a foot, Num- | internal reveaue receipts, so Affray at Tren- | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, @ur National Finances=The Duty of Cos- grees on tho Subject. Next Monday fortnight the Forty-second Congress will reassemble, it having alroady had a session last spring, and we shall thea have an exposition of the condition of our national finances and the views of the admin- istration on the fiaancial policy to be pursued. The Message of the President and report of the Secratary of the Treasury—as far as they may bear on this sutject—will be looked for with great interest. Though Congress may act indepsndently, as it sometimes does, of the views or recommendations of the Presi- dent or Secretary of the Treasury on flaxncial matters, it is not likely there will be any want of harmoay on these during the ap- proaching session. The administration has an overwhelming majority in both houses, and in view of the fact that General Grant will be the candidate of the party for re-election next year, serious opposition to his measures can hardly be expected. The necessity of unity of purpose and action will be recognized, no doubt, by nearly all the republicans of both the Senaie and House of Representatives, In all probability, too, the administration has had or will have coofer- ences with leading Congressmen as to the financial policy to be recommended. Tue Message of the President and report of the Secretary, therefore, will indicate probably what is likely to be done by Congress. The Presideat, we suppose, has no fixed opinions on financial questions, Indeed, he does not pretend to understand them, He will sanction, there is reason to believe, the recommendations of Mr. Boutwell. But General Grant has a good stock of practical common sense, and if he would use it about financial matters could show as much or more judgment than the Secretary, who, after all, is buta respectable lawyer and pretty clever politician, with none of the qualities of a statesman on the subject of national finance. We should rather trust General Grant's good common sense than the crade notions of his subordinate, which have been formed in the narrow protectionist school of Now England politics. If the President will fix in his mind a few simple principles of political economy and of the financial policy the country now { needs he may see his way clear to direct Mr. } Boutwoll. First, then, the policy of raising an enor- mous and unnecessary revenue is a burden upon industry and retards the development of the country. More than that: it leads to ex- al fravazance and corruption, and keeps up a | vast and expensive civil establishment, with ‘tens of thousands of government employés that might be dispensed with and sent to pro- ductive industry, At the rate the revenue bas been coming in for some time past the amount for the fiscal year will exceed, proba- bly, the current expenditures and interest on the debi nearly a hundred and fifty millions of dollars. We have not the data and caunot be precise; but judging from the customs and much above the Seeretary’s estimates, we do not think the sur- plus revenue will be far short of a hundred and fifiy millioas. In fact, we havea war revenue in time of profound peace, and when there is not the least probability of war. Cal- culating the interest on the debt in rouad | numbers at a hundred and twenty millions of | dollars, and the largest sum that ought to be | required for current exp2nses to carry on tho ; goveroment, pensions and all included, at a hundred and twenty millions more, which would exceed the expenditure eleven years ago by fifty millions, the total amount of reve- nue absolutely necessary would be two han- dred and forty millions. Add ten millions to be used in liquidating the principal of the debt, which is quite as much as should be called for in a year from the people of this gen- | eration, who bave borne the heaviest cost and brunt of the war, and we have a grand total of two-hundred and fifty millions. Yet we suppose Mr. Boutwell will show a revenue of nearly four hundred millions. We are aware that the object of the Secre- tary of tbe Treasury has been to pay off the principal of the debt at the rate of a hundred millions or more a year, and know that this has been done. He has thought, doubtless, this was the best policy to pureue, though we cannot resist the impression that he has been more intent on glorifying bimseif and ine ad- ministration for paying off the debt than on promoting the real and best interests of the | country. Then Mr, Boytwoll is a New Eng- land man and a protectionist, and knows that | @ vast revenue can only be obtained by heavy imposts which afford protection to and en- | ric’) bis own s:ction of country. His revenue | system gives as much protection to the New England manufacturers as specific laws for that purpose could, while that protection ap- pears to com? only incidentally and from necessity. In truth, the war, with all its horrors, devastation and cost to other sec- tions, has proved an advantage to the manu- facturers of New England. The payment of the debt is made te answer the same purpose through the pretended necessity of raising an | enormous income, But the West and Sonth, \ the agriculturists, business men generally and the Working classes have to pay dearly for this New England policy. The Secretary had the idea, too, that pay- ing off the debt so rapidly would raise the credit of the government, and that having in reserve all the time a hundred millions or so of gold capital, uoproductive though it be, would bring about specie payments. What haa been the result? Our six per cents are worth little more in the markets of the world than the British three per cents, though we are paying over a hundred millions a year of the debt and England pays scarcely any of hers, The credit of a government depends upon its ability to pay interest, and not so much upon the liquidation of the principal. No one doubts the ability of this republic to pay, and, therefore, there is no necessity to keep paying the debt at the rate of over a hundred millions a year to establish the credit of our government, We think a smaller and an economical revenue, with a limited sink- ing fund, would raise the credit of the govera- ment more. Then the hoarding of such a vast amount of gold all the time in the coffers of the Treasury rather retards than promotes bers of houses in the same neighborhood are rent aod cracked from top to bottom with the unexpected lowering of their foundations, and the astonishment and panic of the people ia somthing bevond description. specie payments. It only serves the purpose of gold gambling and to oppress the importing merchants. While the Treasury and couatry are losing from six to eight millions a year in < inverest on this surplus and hoarded monev no one is benefited. Set the gold afloat, reduce the revenue and take off taxation a hun- dred millions to a hundred and fifty millions a year, and the eleven por cent pre- mium on gold woald soon vanish. If the government would do this and declare the greenback currency at par with gold we should reach a specie basis for our circulation. It is the burden of taxation that checks industry, prevents production and withholds our products from foreign markets. Remove this, and both our internal and foreign com- merce would be stimulated. With that and a simple system of raising revenue from a few articles of luxury chiefly thousands of govern- ment employ’s might be discharged and mil- lions a year s.ved in salaries alone. A great source of corruptiofi and demoralizing extra- vagance would be removed and the nation would profit every way. Is the administration prepared to reccommend this policy of finan- cial reform? Will the President and Secretary of the Treasury advise Congress to cut the revenue dowo to two hundred and fifty mil- lions a year? And will Congress give up its plundering schemes, the tempting fund of corruption held in the Treasury, and afford the relief the country needs? That is the great question of the time and overshadows The Coming Legisintare aad the New York City Charter. The recent election has so completely revo- lutionized the political character of the State, and bas given the republicans such a decided majority in both branches of the Legislature, that some apprehension bas been felt lest the party in power should pervert the judgment rendered by the people of the city of New York, and study partisan interests rather than substantial reform in the construction of the new municipal charter. Our citizons are well satisfied with the result reached at the polls last week, and would, no doubt, make their verdict even more emphatic had they the work to do over again. They are willing to trust those to whom they have assigned the duty of carrying into effect the reformation of our city government, and they will give their confidenc> to such officers as may be placed in power under the new régime. But they will nevertheless insist that the new administration shall be one to recommend itself to.all sincere reformers, and not a mere change from one set of professional politicians to another. The republican State organ at Albany throws out some sensible suggestions in this direction in an ariicle which will be found in the Heratp to-day. It insists that the new charter must be strictly all those of a mere political character. Tae News ‘rom the Bar East—Trade and Travel to the Western Republic. The steamship Japan landed at San Fran- cisco on Wednesday, bringing the China and Japan mails, a number of passengers and an exceedingly heavy freight of valuable mer- chandise, The cargo is consigned for distri- non-partisan in its character, and must leave to the people of New York the choice of their own rulers, This is no doubt intended to check the efforts already being mad» by some repub- lican office-seekers to induce the Logislature to retarn to the old and corrupt . system of independent metropolitan commissions—an experiment that has been one of the main bution in the United States, Mexico and Europe. In this connection we must again call attention to the wonderful revolution which has been accomplished ia the routes both of personal travel and for the transit of goods from the far East since the opening of the Pacific Railroad—a change which will be- come more marked and distinct in its com- mercial consequences each succeeding year, until the peoples of the Old World will be forced by very necessity to turn both their eyes and ears to the shores of the great re- public of the West when they wish to hear of friends or trade profits from the empires of the East, The news by the Japan, which we have telegraphed from San Francisco, is of an interesting character, but of sad import in some of its points. The Mikado of Japan has freed himself from the personal exclusive- ness which has been attached to his sovereign position for many, many ages, and appears just now in public almost as freely as the Prince of Wales or the Grand Duke Alexis. His Majesty will come to like it by and by, and then, perhaps, he will take a trip to New York, so that he may enjoy himself still more pleasantly, and “‘read up” about Buddhism and Confucius in the Bible House. Three bun- dred lives were lost by a typhoon in one part of Chica and one thousand persons drowned by river floods in the province of New Chiang. Twenty thousand square miles of territory were submerged. The religious fanatical excitement troubles had ended in the south of China. United States Consul General Seward was at Shanghae from the North. Teas and | silk were higher in price. The work of culti- vating: cotton in China was more hopeful. The captain of the forecastle of the United States ship Colorado was killed by a fall when the vessel was in dock at Yokohama. The new Governor of Yokohama delivered a very progressive speech before the foreign consuls in that city. So that, taking our news budget asawhole, we imagine that we can perceive in its contents the sparkle of a scintillation of that civilizing light which will yet illumine the vast and hoary lands of China and Japan. Is New York Crry CapaBie or SkLr-Gov- ERNMENT?—The Philadelphia Press (republi- can) expresses the opinion that what New York city and all other large municipalities require to preserve their purity is a simple republic in which the people shall choose their own rulers and make their own laws—a system which must, of course, be backed by a “healthy public ‘sentiment.” The question here arises, how is that public sentiment to be created, and how is it to be directed to proper uses? That New York city is capable of self- government evidence is afforded by the over- whelming rout of th@corruptionists on the 7th | instant; but there is no means of judging how soon a reaction may occur and the city be again plaved in the hands of a mob and ruled by a ring of unscrupulous politicians. And | after all the people may have turned out one set of bad ralers only to give place to a worse one, Time will determine. Patronace or tHE New Governor oF New | Junsuy.—Governor Parker, of New Jersey, | on taking his seat, will have the appointment of a Chancellor, Clerk of the Supreme Court, four Judges of the Supreme Court, three | Judges of the Court of Errors, besides a num- | ber of county prosecutors. Most of these offices are now filled hy republicans, and, no | doubt, the Governor coald nominate all demo- crats in their places; but the trouble is, a re- | publican Senate bas to act upon the nomina- fions. Hence it is presumed he will propose | a judicious compromise and thus save the State from unnecessary delay in the regular | formation of its judiciary. Tux Cmicaco Granxp Jury—far more sen- sible than Governor Palmer—has discovered :| that General Sheridan did not kill Colonel | Grosvenor during the unsettled days just suc- | ceeding the fire. They see no reason for in- dicting him, notwithstanding the strange recommendation of the Governor. Indew they feel, doubiless, as the rest of Chicago feels, military usurpation or no military usur- | pation, that Sheridan was exceedingly handy | to have about the city during those days of panic. M. Jurxs Favre is likely to be honored by the French Cabinet with the appointment of an ambassador of the highest rank to some foreign court. The question of the where to | excites considerable interest in London, It is under debate by the French Ministry, Wil | he go to the Court of St. James? Would the great advocate be acceptable if he went | Uron toe Heaps or | Heaven upon the people of Illinois for having causes of the demoralization of the city gov- ernment. Any such attempt at this time would arouse a storm of indignation and react injuriously upon the party making it, The. Albany organ proposes just such a charter as the Heratp bas advocated for the past ten or twelve years; simple in form, with concentrated power, direct responsibility of the Chief Executive to the people for the good conduct of every department, and frequent elections, so as to give the citizens the opportunity to change the Mayor whenever the necessity arises, and through him to reach the whole machiuery of the goveroment, It sugzests that therg should Be &8 Tew Todependent whoels a3 possible in the government; that the expendi- tare of money should be strictly guarded; that the heavily feed offices, such as Sheriff, County Clerk and Register, should be cut down to fair salaries, as we have time and again urged, and that the tax levy should ba left to local adjustment and not taken to Albany session after session. This latter re- form is already secured in the existing charter. It is encouraging, however, to see an Albany paper, whose original proprictor was the father of legislative debauchery, and which has been one of the most useful allies of the New York “Ring” in its repeated bribery of the Legislature, advocating the re- moval of this prolific source of corruption and plunder beyond the reach of its friends. Whatever may be done at the State capital this winter in regard to our city gov- ernment should meet the approval of those democrats who have been prominent in the cause of reform—Charles O'Conor, Samuel J. Tilden, Andrew H. Green, Henry G. Stebbins and others. By this means the people will be assured that the new charier is not of a par- tisan character and is such as the honest re- formers of the city contemplated when they made their voices heard through the ballot box. The work should be done deliberately and thoroughly. Tkere will be no occasion to hurry over @ law that should be made to stand for years. An immediate change in the gov- ernment is no doubt the wish of gur citizens, and this can be accomplished by anieudments to the present charter, which may take effect immediately, without the trouble and excite- ment of a spring election. The new Board of Aldermen will, beyond question, assume power at once, either through the action of the courts or by authority of the Legislature, and, it is to be hoped, with John Coch- rane for President of the Board. The terms of all the present city officials can then be closed by a simple amendment, and the city government be left until next year in the bands of the acting Mayor. The people will be satisfied to entrust the administration of their affairs to John Cochrane, whose hon- esty and capacity are well established, and the important work of framing a new charter and a new election law can then be proceeded with deliberately and perfected before the close of the legislative session. Tue Sovra ‘‘Heapine Coats oF Fire Irs Exemins.”—The Brandon (Miss.) Republican regards tho late conflagrations in Chicago and the Westera forests asa “‘ierrible retribution” from Heaven for the devastation that marxed the course of Sherman in his famous march to the sea, It even heads its ariicle as follows :—‘*The Sovih Heaping Ovals of Fire on the Heads of Its_ Enemies.” The Mormons have already claimed these awful calamities as the vengeance of driven the Saints out of the State tairty years ago. But perhaps Southerners like our Bran- don contemporary have the best right to claim these fearful visitations as evidences of Divine wrath on their behalf, No doubt the South is prepared to ‘‘heap coals of fire upon the heads of its enemies.” Its leaders have “eaten” enough of it in past years to have a lite to spare, either for friend or foe. a dininctar nena et Tux New Dxrarrore of a new party out and ont, some weeks ago presented in the Heratp as the only hope for the demoralized democracy, is gaining ground. The Staats Zeitung, for instance, the German democratic organ of this city, urges this movement upon the democratic party as their only chanco for getting up in the world. The question with the party leaders seems to be whether they shall fall in behind the anti-Grant republicans on a fusion ticket like that by which Missouri has been revolutionized, or whether the demo- crats shall undertake a national reform party, like that by which New York city has been carricd against the Tammany Ring. Do as you like, gentlemen; “you pays your money there? Tom Soort, the Pennsylvania railroad king, is atill the favorite of the Cincinnati Haguirer against the ficld as the democratic candidate for the Presideacv. and you takes your choice ;” but you must do something, Since its surrender to the repub- licans on the new amendments there is no far. | ther use for the present democratic party. Its occupation is gone, Aa Austrian Coup Agaisst Behomia’s Con- The Bohemian Diet remains firm in its refusal to send Parliamentary Deputies to the Austrian Reichsrath in Vienna, The assump- tion of this provincial position puzzles and annoys the imperial Cabinet. The Ministry of the Emperor discussed a proposition having in view to throw the electoral franchise open to the whole people of Bohemia, #0 that they may nominate and choose representatives to the national legisla- ture without the interference of the members of the Diet. The plan was approved, and the imperial decree ordering the clections by the people of Bohemia to take place imme- diately was received in Prague from Vienna yesterday evening. ‘The official notices authorizing the action were issued. It is a hazardous experiment; one which may prove exceedingly disastrous to the constitution of Austria, In order to right one Parliament the Ministry has done a great wrong against the independ- ence of another. A general ballot or plébiscite in Bohemia may not produce the desired result, It may, indeed, work in the opposite direction, A free vote bas frequently scattered the calculations of the most astute Politicians. The British government at one time accorded an almost universal suffrage to Treland by giving the right of voting at Parliamentary elections to a class of men known as the forty shilling frecholders— persons who qualified as electors on a land- holding income worth two pounds sterling. They were corrupted by the landlords, and for very many years supported English interesta, Whon a great public Agitator moved for the attainment of Catholic emancipation, subse- quent to the union, he won his first election to Parliament mainly -through the instru- mentality of this very body of freeholders. The “forties” went with him toa man. They were almost immediately disfranchised by law, even before he gained his grand object in the House of Commons, and that, too, with the consent and advice of a majority of the Catholic prelates of Ireland. The Catholic aristocracy wanted toleration, but they feared radicalism, Universal suffrage can be made Auother Protest from the Pope. The Holy Father, as will be seen from our cable despatches of this morning, is not yet tired of protesting. Another protest is threat- ened. This time he seems to have a good case in hand. Much as we believe in the rights of the Italian people, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that the Pope has some rights which the Italian government particu- larly and the world generally are bound to respect. We believe we express a sentiment which ia general when we say that there was something of the cruel, sometbing which re- called the harsh policy of the rough times of bluff King Harry, of uxorious memory, in the recent occupation of the convents and the con- sequent expulsion of the nuns by the Italian government. Another source of pain to the Holy Father was the occupation of the Palace of the Quirinal—a palace associated in history with many important Papal elections. The Pope, it is said, id abont to make an appeal to the European Powers, proiestiag against cer- tain acts of the Italian government as viola- tions of international law and of the rights and dignities of the countries concerned. The occupation of the nunneries and the forcible suppression and closing of certain interna- tional religious houses will form part of the complaint, It will not surprise us to learn that Cardinal Antonelli has hit upon a course of pblicy which will prove a source of trouble to the Italian government. If there has been any violation of the principles of justice the Pope does well to protest, and we have no doubt at gll that if good case is made out it will command the sympathy of the peoples to an extent which wil compel the interfer- ence of the governments. ae Italians must have Rome for their capital; but the public sense of mankind will insist that the rights of individuals «nd of associations mast be re- spected. Aven Tne ANGLO-AMERIOAN Cratms ComMissioN held a meeting in Washington yesterday, when the ethics of British claims against the United States were pretty fully defined. It was shown that Lord Lyons bad entered a very strong demurrer against any of the ordi- nary claims by his letter of instructions to English residents in France during the Franco- German war, in which he decided that their claims for war damages could not be enter- tained, because thelr damages were natural consequences of their residence in a country ravaged by war. Counsel for both parties, however, are shrewdly alive to the require- ments of their clieats, and the result will prove, most likely, a complete settlement of cases that might otherwise be a disturbing element for ages to come. A Pension AGENT of the government, one Calhoun, of Philadelphia, was recently dis- covered to be a defaulter to the amouat of eleven thousand dollars. He was consequently requested to resign, having failed to make the deficit good, and it is now intimated that unless he does resign he will bo suspended. Surely this is not tho punishment such a government as ours designs for iis derelict and swindling officials, especially for tuose who swindle the children and widows of our dead soldiers, There should be shorter metre than this with such rascals, Mr, TwEED yesterday replied to the com- plaint brought against him by Mr, O'Conor by a demurrer, on the ground that Mr. O'Conor has no legal capacity to bring the action; that facts sufficient ure not stated to constitute a cause of action, and that the Mayor, Com- monalty and Board of Supervisors are not in- cluded in the defence. The action will come on at an early day in Albany. Tur Bank oF ENGLAND reduced the rate of discount to four per cent yesterday ; but gold, which opened at 111, advanced to 111}, much to the astonishment of the speculators in the Gold Room, who looked for a reverse move- ment. There is an old saw in Wall strect which saya, “Buy on bad news and sell on good news ;” but it evidently has no reference to gold, whatever it may have to stocks, Wanren—A new lobby for Albany this winter. The old one is ‘played out.” Tweed is done for, Where is Weed? & Bateh ef Bohomian “Yarns ‘Tho variable woather of fall and carly winter seems to exercise a peculiarly bracing influence upon the imaginative faculties of provincial and Bohemian journalists. Perhaps it may be that the occasional cold snaps and rainstorms force these gentlemen more frequently than ever to seek shelter in barrooms and consolation in bad whiskey, and, trembling on the verge of that interest- ing mental state known as the ‘Gimjams,” they dream dreams and see visions of a singti- larly appetizing and thrilling character. We would not complain of their thus lapsing periodically into mid lunacy if they refrained from imposing the offspring of a discased brain upon a credulous public ag Literal fact. For example, there lies before us a New York letter to a provincial paper, headed ‘Among the Ghosts,” which claims that this Stato ‘4g favored above all others by the disembodied spirits,” and then gives as an illustration cer- tain wonderful phenomena that have recently, been exhibited in a house in this city. The street and number of the haunted dwelling are, of course, not given; such details are altogether below the dignity of spirit litera- ture. Unearthly music occasionally floats out’ of an unopened piano ; empty rooms resound with wild noises, “‘such as balf-grown boys might make in a game of tag,” pictures aro turned with their faces to the wall, the gas is put out, clothes are strewn over the floor, and all sorts of other absurd pranks played by the frolicsome ghosts. Most wonderful of all, on one occasion a young gentleman was taken up in his chair and despite his struggles carried across the room. Isn't this piling it on a little too thick, most readable of ‘‘own corresa- pondents?” From Pennsylvania, too, we have a couple of sensational storles of a differenttype. One gives the history and appeardnce of a couple of children, a boy anda girl, who have been allowed by the neglect of thelr parents to grow up almost fo maturity in an unmitigated « state of primitive savagery. They are so~ wild that they cannot even articulate a word of English. This is the weakest part of the story, for, as every one knows, ig used to be an orthodox dogma of mediwval theology that as the oldest of all languages was Hebrew, therefore a child, if taught no other speech, would by the simple fordé of nature speak with fluency and correct ness the tongue of the Revealed Word. ae. children bave never worn any clothes except an old cloth over their shoulders and a pair of moccasins, The girl was wont to roam about the woods for days together perfectly naked, and slept under the trees even in the heart of winter. Her usual mode of locomovion is de- scribed to have been on all fours. The-second story also deals with a wild woman, who wan- dera about the forests of Somerset county, clad only with au apron of leaves, sandals of bark anda necklace of teaberries. She has fine black eyes, an oval face framed in masses of flowing raven black hafr, and looks like the “queen of the forests.” Very recently she attempted to steal a farmer's child, but in order to escape pursuit was forced to abandon her prize. Such tales as the above prove that civilisa- tion has not yet uprooted men’s appotite for the marvellous and the impossible. a Dean Swift's time, only @ century and a half ago, the English masses accepted Gulliver as a — truthful and reliable book of travel. Perhaps a narrative of an excursion into the bowels of the earth, or a journey to the planct Mars, if only sufficiently well told, might even now be credited by the ears that listen in rapt amaze- ment to these ridiculous stories about spirits and wild women, The Labor Troubles in Germany. Our correspondence from Cologne, which we publish on another page this morning, shows pretty conclusively that there is deop and settled discontent among the workingmen of Germany. Imitating the policy followed out by their brethren io England, they are determined to have less hours for work, more pay for their labor and better treatment gen- erally from their employers. In many re- spects the similarity between the course pursued by the German workmen and the line of conduct adopted by the British mechanics is evident ; and it is not unlikely that the mys- terious influence of the Ioternational exerts itself in the matter. The time chosen, as shown by our correspondent, is favorable to the strikers. The managers of the Rhenish Railroad have, however, refused ‘to grant their workmen the concessions they demand, believing that they cap fill their places with other hands, When it is recollected that the laborers at other points are also influenced by the same considerations as those on atrike, and only await their own time to do likewise, it will be seen how easily the employers may mis- calculate in the matter of the procurement ot labor, The North of England ironmasters believed, like the German railroad managers, that they could supply the places of the men who “went out on strike.” After nearly four months of endeavor they discovered their mistake, and came to terms with the very hands with whom they disagreed. It is not alone in Cologne workshops that the men are dissatisfied. The feeling appears to be very general, At Erfurt, Cxemnits, Mayence and Dresden trade difficulties prevail. At Cheaniiz about eight théusand ironfounders are on strike. The Central Committee ot this large body of men has issued an address to the people which savors strongly of red republicanism. ‘Hurrah for social democ- racy!” is one of the closing sentences of this appeal, These are angry signs and aapleas- ant indications, and- they exhibit a spirit among the German workingmen not alto gether peaceful or orderly. Teh iseatiespnetabaateaaneila Harmoxy Amone tnt Repositoans.—The Pittsburg Commercial (republican) thinks it is a pity that a quarrel ever occurred between Senator Fenton and Collector Murphy, involv- ing so many intereats to the republican party, and, it adds, it is gratifying to know that thia view of the matter is not lost sight of by General Geant. The Commercial “iooks for harmony where before the want of it has been felt, and notin New York only, by the re- moval of the causes which have produced the opposite feeling,” The removal of » those causes will probably consist in the removal of some poople from certain public offices and the putting in of some other peopfe in their places. r