The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1872, Page 6

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KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 1 Borsno® AND ABT. shin amma a TRIPLE SHEET. Sew York, saturday, January 20, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY3 HERALD. "aa Advertisements, 2—Adveriisements, S—Wavhtugton: President Grant’s Opinion of the Custom House Investigation; Swift Punish- ment for the Violators of Law} Important Tes- timony in Possession of the Committee; The Pacific Ratiroad Land-Grab War; Th National wank vividend; ts for vhe Anti- Tobacco Socie y; Kight Million Nicotine sin- bers Puffing Their Way to Perdition—Re Geptions at the Capit:l—The New Regime: The city Charter onstructed by the Re- formers; Our Later Statesmen in a Web of In- trigue; A Department of Public Satety with Five Bureaus; Police, Fire, Health and Public Buildings Departments To Be Absorbed in One; The le ee of finance and a De- artment of Law; A Vile Blow at Aljermanic juisites; Present Office-lciders To Be: Set to Work or Starve; No Room for Tammany peor vel the New Atrangement—Eulogy 4@=—Dr. Livingstone: Views ot the English Press on the New York HERALD’s Expedition; British Honor at Stake; How the Private Enterprise of Foreigners 13 Regarded; Scientific Men In Council; Tne Royal Geographical Society's Livingstone's Search Bx tion; Necessity of jhe ‘Action—Atlantic. Cable’ Toiegrauny: a Greater Facilities and a Lower Tarif! tween England and the Uniied States—Chiselhurst: A New Year Luncheon at Camden House; Napoleon gnd_ Eugenie; All the Money Required Can be Raised in the United States; The Emperor's Opinion of Americans; Sentiment in St. Petersburg and Berlin; Little Louis; General Review of the Situation in France—A City thon age iad The Destruction of Uran by he e—Care for the Aged—Fatal ‘Aifray in a Lager Beer Sa- toon—Hunter’s Point Bibte War. G—The State Ca; i; Comptrolier Wreen’s Bill in the House; Grand Test Vote; The Fentonites Ahead; The Democrats Divided—The Custom House Committee: Blackmyiled Importers Coming to the Front; administrative Senators Welcoming Merchants with Insult and Intim}- dation; lat Frank Howe Says About the Naylor Case; General Denial of the Facts; An Ex-OMcial Defender of the Custom House Put Th b & Course of “‘Sprouts;” Abundant Prools of ression and Intimidation—Heavy Ordnance: Have We an Effective Gun for Naval and Seacoast Defence ?-A Lady Burned to Death in Hartford—Iinternational Penitentiary Congress—The Death of Henry Scribner. @—Enitorials: Leading Article, “The Custom House Frauds and General Demoralization in Pubic Office’'—Amusement Announcements. ‘Y—Editorials (continued trom Sixth pT deal ie Cable Telegrams—Marine Disaster and of Life in Ladia—Floods in the Island of Java—The War in Mexico—News from Cuba— The Returning Huniers: The Grand Ducal Party at Denver—A Dead Secret: A Beautiful Girl of Fighteen Shoots Herself witn a Re- Yolver—The Salt Lake Saints—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Busine=s Notices. S—The Utica Tragedy : Life of the Prisoner; Her aiden Name Was Joshephine A, Fagan; Her Aliases Were Mrs, Josephine A. McCarty, Mrs, Virginia Seymour und Mrs. Dr. Emma Bur- leigh; She Was Formerly a Mistress of a Well Kuown Politician; At One Time @ Aotorious Lobbyist in Albany—Canada : Commerce Be- ‘tween the vominion and the United States; Spirited Devate on the Trade Relations Before the Canadian Board of Trade—Around the City Hali—The German Reform Movement— oe Fe eo a 3 ‘The Case for the De- jence— ’4—A Nauoual Benelactor— ote eee the eee nis @—Female Lawyers: Shall Females be Aamitted to the Bar as Practising Attorneys’—The st. John’s College Sensaiton—The Third avenue Savings —The Market Savings bank— Plasterers on the Surike—Financial and Com- mercial dh TS hd and Deaths, 10—Mrs, Wharton: The Maryland ‘rial Approach- ing @ Conclusion; Mr. Thomas’ Adaress; Ap. pealing to the Jury as Husvanas, Fatners and thers; Mr. Steele Breaking Down; His Maniiest Emotion When Speaking of the Ac. cusei and Her Daughter; An Audience in Toars—Democratic Relorm Organization—A Clerical Lockout—sbipping Intelligence—Ad- 11 me Cours & Coll Tne Courts: ‘ollision Case in Admiralty; The Lilienthal Tobacco Case Again; ‘Alleged Embezzlement of Letters in the Post OMmce; Charge of Linge es to Detraad; The Case of Aun E, Burns, the Abortionist, Again in Court; The Injunction Against the Dock Commission- ers; fhe Gray Will Case; Decisions; business in the Court of General Sessions—The Car Hook Tragedy: Appiicatiqn tora New Trial for Foster—A Desperate Lover—A Bond Rov- bery Uase—Prayer by Jewish Rabbis in Con- ress—A Widow's Wrongs: Second Day's Frocsedings in the “id Folks” Breach of Promise Case at Kingston, N. Y.—Brooklyn Affairs—Oficial Proceedings of the Boarus of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. 12—Onicial Proceedings of the Boards of Aldermen ind «“‘Assistant Aldermen (Continued from Hleventn Page)—Advertisements. A Tremenpovs Unpgertaxine—That of the reconstruction of Tammany on the prin- ciples of harmony, honesty and reform. AN Exogtirent Bxampie.—The Board of Health of Wasbington City announces that it is ready to remove all cases of contagious Aiseases at a moment's notice. Goop News.—Senator Sherman says that he will shortly report a bill which will cure the frauds in the Custom House, Let him do it, and then prepare to wrap himeelf in the American flag and die‘to the music of ‘‘Hail, Columba,” Gomme Back Twenty Yzars oR 50.—Mr, Tiemann has introduced @ bill in the State Senate authorizing certain new omnibus lines on Broadway and other streets in New York. We move an amendment for a line of Sedan ghairs around Washington Market. ‘The Custom House Frauds and General Demoralization in Public Ofice. The exposure of the frauds and other evils in the Custom House made by ‘the Congres- sional Investigating Committee, which has been taking evidence for fifteen days in this city, might prove rather startling if we were not accustomed to such things on the largest scale, and if the public conscience had not become hardened by the frequency and enormity of frauds all round in public office. There will be, doubtless, both a majority and minority report by the committee, according to the political bias of the members, as there is in all such cases, one making the best case possible for the administration and the other the worst; but as the evidence of fraud, bribery, stealing and political corruption is too clear to be disguised we suppose there will be some concurrence in exposing and denouncing the evils. The testimony shows that the Custom House management is utterly demoralized; that the Qustom House is used as a machine to con- trol both local and national politics ; that the politicians use the employ¢s to knock down one set of men and“to put up another, and that the employés mako raids upon the mer- chants under protection of the politicians. It is a system of robbery, extortion and cor- ruption all through. public are the victims, certain political influence and will be sub- servient to the party or faction in power, rep- resented -by the Collector of the Port, is The merchants and A man who hasa appointed to office, without regard to his character or fitness, and generally gets a position commensurate with his influence. He knows his strength, and feels that he can plunder with impunity. He stands waiting and expecting all the time to be bribed either to do his duty or forbear doing it; and if the merchants or shipping masters and agents fuil to give this servant of the government a douceur they soon find themselves the objects of persecution and their business obstructed. Merchandise is not safe in the hands of these plundering Custom House politicians; for the evidence brought out by the Congressional Committee shows numerous cases in which goods have been stolen from packages while under Cus- tom House control, The present general order system seems to have been invented specially to fleece our merchants for the benefit of par- ticular friends of the administration. Seizures are made, not with a view to the protection of the revenue so much as to extort money from merchants or to fill the pockets of rings of officials and detec- tives in the Custom House, They amount sometimes to an attempt at blackmailing un- der cover of official authority. These and other evils too numerous to mention here are kept up through political inflaence and are made subservient to political ends. A great injury is done to individuals, to the merchants, shipowners and others by these frauds and impositions ; but the commercial in- terests generally of New York are also seri- ously affected, They operate as a burdensome tax upon commerce, and tend both to restrain it and to drive it to other channels, It was shown in evidence that merchandise could be landed at’ Boston and sent thence to New York by railroad at as little or less cost and more promptly than in passing through the obstruc- tions, expenses and corrupt channel of the Cus- tom House here, Our city, then, is directly interested, in a commercial point of view, in having these evils exposed and reform applied. In mentioning the administration in connection with the Custom House frauds we do not sup- pose General Grant has had anything to do with them. The vicious and corrupt system existed before he was President. His sub- ordinate officials have k»pt it up. They have used the Custom House as a political machine for the benefit of the administration party, as their predecessors under different administra- tions have; but the President may not have taken any action in the matter. The zeal of his supporters may have gone beyond his knowledge, as well as beyond the bounds of prodence or honesty. We seem to have reached a terrible state of corruption and fraud. The wholesale robbery by the Tammany Ring, the plunder of the railroad, Treasury and other rings in Washington, the s‘upendous frauds upon some of the Southern States by the carpet- bag officials there, and other plundering opera- tions throughout the country, both under the local and federal governments, have been sup- plemented by the Custom House exposures. These are the latest developments of corrup- tion among officials. We fear the end has not been reached yet. In fact, it will be well if the impulse given by the Tammany frauds to a general scrutiny of official delinquency should lead to a more thorough investigation of federal, State and municipal government throughout the whole country. Fortunately there is little that escapes the vigilance of the press in America, and, therefore, the evils with which we are afflicted stand ont promi- nently before the world. Let us hope that official and political corruption has culminated with us, and that with all these recent ex- posures we are about to enter upon an era of reform. Both the frauds of Tammany and the Custom House originated in part from political motives—the money and the offices to be used in a political struggle for power ; but the temptation to plunder by those in authority for their own benefit was too great for such small men, and hence the col- lapse and exposures we have witnessed, The general corruption we have noticed is the result in a great measure of the war, Political corruption and asing the offices and patronage of the government for party ends began before. We may say, perhaps, that this demoralizing system began as early as Jefferson's time; but it received its full develop. ment when Jackson was President. Then the political dogma that ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils” was practically carried out, and has been recognized ever since by all parties in power. The enormous sums of money and vast patronage in the handsof the government since the war commenced have increased the cupidity and extravagance of those wielding power and the partisan politicians, Mil. lions of dollars are spoken of and thought as little of as thousands were previously. Everything in the way of revenue and expen- ditures is on a much grander soale, and the jobs and corruptions correspond. We feol even now, seven years after the war, the terrible effect of ite demoralizing influence, It will require a great moral effort on the part of the people, the legislative bodies and the gen- eral government to overcome this influence, The first step should be for Congress to cut down to the lowest figure possible the revenue of the government, thus removing the tempta- tion to extravagance and corruption and dis- pensing with an‘ army of employ¢és. Let us have strict economy in the federal government, and the influence of that would soon be felt in the States, cities and the country generally. Above all, let parties cease to use the federal revenues, Custom Houses and offices as ma- chines for political purposes. The New York City Government in the State Legislature-A Field Day with the Greenites and the Auti-Greonites. Yesterday was a field day in the State Assembly over the bill to provide for the pay- ment of certain claims against the city and county of New York, and the whole subject of the conflict that bas suddenly arisen be- tween the Comptroller and other heads of de- partments came up in the course of debate. The Committee on Cities had reported favor- ably a bill to authorize the Comptroller to raise four and a half million dollars on city bonds, to pay the arrears of wages, salaries, supplies, &c., due in the year 1871. The bill, as reported in the House, is very different from that reported in the Senate, The former confines its provisions strictly to the simple authorization to the Comptroller to raise money to pay certain of the debts of the city and county, while the latter, in addition, seeks to put all the offices and departments of the government under the supreme control and jurisdiction of that officer for the next three months. The House bill came up for debate in the Committee of the Whole, when Mr. Twombly, of New York, moved to substitute a bill which creates a Board of Apportionment and Audit, composed of the Comptroller, the President of the Board of Aldermen and the President of the Depart- ment of Parks and the Commissioners of the Board of Public Works, con- ferring upon such Board the power to audit and adjust all claims against the city and county, and to apportion the moneys to be used by the several city and county depart- | ments and offices for the next three months, or until the Ist day of May next. It will no doubt strike those who are unfamiliar with and independent of political intrigues as a re- markable thing that a heated controversy should spring up:in a reform Legislature over such @ simple proposition os this; but the fruth is that the whole question of the future combinations and divisions of political par- ties in the city is drawn within the scope of the discussion. . Independent of these factional schemes and intrigues the case is briefly as follows :—A large number of claims against the city for the year 1871 remain unpaid. Some of them are unquestionably honest; that is to say, for labor honestly performed, for services honestly ren- dered, and for materials and supplies honestly furnished. The Comptroller is the legal and natural auditor of all accounts against the city, Ifhe makes a schedule of all clatns that he regards of unquestionable character, and simply asks for a deficiency bill to enable him to pay them and to reimburse the different funds from which moneys have been improp- erly drawn, his request should be granted. This we understand to be the .whole scope of the bill reported by the Committee of Cities and now under debate in the Assembly. We have opposed the extension of the Comptroller’s powers in any degree in the direction of the Executive authority ; but there can be no good reason why he should not be authorized to raise money to pay the honest debts of the city. The claims -he regards as doubtful can, without prejudice to their character, be left to be settled hereafter, when a new charter shall be enacted, in which the final adjustment of all such matters will be provided for. As the claimants have waited thus long it will be no great injustice to require them to wait three or four months longer, The Assembly should, therefore, on Monday evening—to which -time the debate stands adjourned—pass the simple deficiency bill to enable the Comptroller to raise - money and pay the honest debts of the city and county, and leave all questions of ap- portionment and the final audit of disputed claims to be provided for in the new charter, There may be’ sound sense in Colonel Haw- kins’ propdsition to appoint experts, out- side the public departments, to audit and adjust all old claims; but this is a subject for future consideration, At present as little temporary legislation should be done as possible. The city govern- ment will ran well enough as it is for the next three months; but if any Board of Apportion- ment is to be raised, temporary or permanent, the legislative department of the city govern- ment should be represented therein through the President of the Board of Aldermen, and the city departments through their several heads. Tae Mexican Borpger Rorrtans are mak- ing things very. lively on our Southern frontier, Meantime, as neither Congress nor President have any time to spare for these Mexican depredations, they will probably go on until they ripen into a border war, with a Texan volunteer expedition in occupation of Matamoros, Then, perhaps, we shall have a message from General Grant to Congress on the subject, and, perhaps, before inter- vention, it may be the policy of General Grant to let these border feuds ripen into a state of actual war, Who knows? GuneRat Espartero, the Duke of Victory, has reconsidered his refusal of the acceptance of princely honor at the hands of King Amadeus, of Spain. He will take the title of Prince of Vergara, a town in which was con- cluded the convention which put an end to the war in Biscay in 1839, The ex-Regent will come still closer to the throne, Why should he, a famous Spaniard, be outranked by Blemarck, and that, too, after the Franco- Prussian war was commenced on a Spanish throne quarrel? cnn Tae Pacific Raiway Traine atill fad it & tough job to work through the snowdrifts in the Utab canyons. A fall of ten feet of snow on the level in the Great Basin’ has this winter settled the snow question on the Cen- tral Pacific road; but these heavy snows, to the settlers and the miners concerned, will be Worth millions of money next summar. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. Dr. Liviagetene, the Herald Expedition and the English Press. On another page of this morning's issue will be found extracts taken from the English press concerning the Herap expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone. Unlike the Cheap Jack journals of this city, the great London dailies have acknowledged our enterprise. The London Telegraph, itself ever foremost in journalistic enterprise, recognizes the importance of the undertaking the Hzgazp commissioner has been instructed to carry out. The London Standard, a paper whose interest in the pur- suit of scientific knowledge bas so often made itself evident, also treats the question with that attention which the importance of the subject deserves. The dog-in-the-manger policy of many of our contemporaries here blinds them with prejudice and causes them to lose sight of the great mission of journal- ism—that of placing before the people the events of the world’s everyday history. The problems which Dr. Livingstone bas attempted, and in all probability is now attempting to solve, are not of mere local interest. They claim the at- tention of the whole universe. Centuries have passed away since the first attempts in this direction were made, and atill the mystery re- mains fast bound. If the press of the present day can aid the great traveller who is now, let us hope, pursuing hig researches in that great unknown land and among a strange and uncivilized people, in the accomplishment of his designs,’ it is only following out its true mission. It is in this regard that the Heratp, at a vast outlay, has undertaken a voluntary task for the enrichment of science and the in- formation of its readers. Not only have the English newspapers perceived the advantages which are likely to follow from this expedition, but the scientific societies of Great Britain, as well as private individuals and the Irish and Scotch press, have taken up the matter. From an advertisement lately published’ by the Royal Geographical Society of London we perceive that an English expedition will shortly start to search for and aid, if found, the indefatigable Livingstone. This under- taking, we trust, will be successful, and we wish it a hearty Godspeed. From all that has been done of late and is doing at present in the exploration of Central Africa we may expect definite information of that compara- tively unknown land. The other exploring party, under the command of a Hzratp Com- missioner, which, by latest accounts, had left Karasko in search of Sir Samuel Baker, will in due time give a good account of itself, We wait in hopeful patience the result of these two expeditions, satisfied that what is to be learned will be learned, and that to the great scientific achievements of the century, will be added another which will give & correct knowledge of interior Africa and the true source of the Nile. Thiers’ Tariff Plan Rejected by the French Logisiature—Kamor of Cabinet Changes fa Paris. Rumors were current in Paris yesterday morning to the effect that President Thiers had expressed his determination to resign the executive office provided the Legislative Assembly rejected the government bill pro- posing a tax on raw material to be used in manufacture. M. Thiers has used the threat of personal ministerial resignation as a sort of parliamentary ‘“‘whip,” or national in terro- rem, over the French people repeatedly during the past few years, under the empire and since its fall, The effect produced oa the nation may have been, at times, flattering to the vanity of the venerable his- torian; bat it must be acknowledged that the means by which the feeling bas been pro- duced almost periodically were scarcely patriotic for political use. Be this as it may, M. Thiers has resorted to such means. The French people have come to realize the fact, and they appear to have resolved to test the sincerity of the profession of the aged states- man. The Legislative Assembly yesterday rejected the direct proposition of M. Pouyer- Quertier, Minister of Finance, to impose a tax on raw material. The vote stood 376 against 307, the Parliament adopting a modified reso- lution which will render the reintroduction of the tariff plan of a direct tax upon such arti- cles an impossibility unless the French gov- ernment first acknowledges that the nation has approached a state of revenue income insol- vency. President Thiers has thus been afforded a chance for the realization of his resignation threat, A reorganization of the Cabinet was anticipated in Paris. Minister Pouyer-Quertier will, it is said, resign. France will, perhaps, commence to moralize over the fable of the alarmist shepherd and his cry of “Wolf!” “Wolf!” and subsequently ask, Will M. Thiers resign the Presidency ? Female Practising Attorneys. The most remarkable case brought before the United States Supreme Court during the present term was the one argued yesterday by Senator Carpenter in favor of the admis- sion of an editress to the Illinois bar as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, as set forth in our despatch from Washington, Mr, Carpenter treated the decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois with becoming respect, although he did not agree with the conclusion there arrived at, that Myra Bardwell, being a married woman, would not be liable on contracts, either express or implied, between her and her clients, The applicant, it was conceded, possessed ample qualifications, and therefore a de facto right. After wading through the labyrinth of the female suffrage movement and disentangling his client’s cause, as far as it was possible, from the policy of Mrs, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, he said it was not merely, in his opinion, a question of woman's rights, but a question of man’s rights. ‘Just in proportion to the equality of woman with man in the enjoyment of social and civil rights and privileges, both sexes are proportionately ad- vanced in refinement and all that ennoble human nature.” This is the language of the learned advocate; and so far has he advanced in his views that he believes if women were ad- mitted to the polls at election they would have more influence in the maintenance of order and decorum than soldicrs and marines. The Sena- tor would admit the lady to the bar, of course, Tas Looxs Like Business.—Mr. Wilson bas introduced a bill allowiag women to vote and hold office In the Territories of the United States. The Daugers of the. Republican Party— The President’s Propesed Ceup d’Etat~ What the Country Expects. Those who have watched the course of Presi- dent Grant regard him as a patient and much enduring man. The important despatch from Washington, printed in another column, will go far towards confirming this impression. The views therein expressed by the President strengthen the statements we printed the other day as to his attitude in this whole Custom House business, bis resolution to forward the investigation in every way in_ his power and to deal promptly and sternly with every one who has brought the least scandal upon his administration. Of course our former despatch to this effect has been angrily denied by those organs, who think that in echoing the gossip from the President's kijchen they speak for the Presi- dent officially. Now, we have no quarrel with the members of the President's official family, nor would we throw a single unkind thought into his Servants’ Hall, We feel that the President should have justice, and we believe that the more thgroughly he is investigated, the more rigidly his whole life is. examined, the more triumphant will be his vindication; that he will come from every ordeal un- scathed—astill retaining the splendor of Donel- son and Vioksburg—and that a grateful and generous people will re-elect him President of the United States. Thas far his enemies have failed in every at- tempt to destroy his character. He will fight it out on the line he occupies if it takes’ all summer—and it probably will take all summer and a goodly share of the autumn. He has made a singularly honest and able administra- tion. As the elected chief of the republican party he has kept every pledge made by his friends with Roman sincerity and firmness. The most radical republican cannot quarrel with General Grant. Those who were impa- tient with Mr. Lincoln even—such men, let us say, as Wendell Phillips and Benjamin F. Butler!—are fully satisfied with Grant. The assaults made upon him are only evidences of his strength with the people. His enemies have no charges against him but corner grocery and barroom scandal. He takes presents, it is said; but no one has heard of a present ac- cepted by him since he entered the White House. As a successful General, some of our citizens gave him such a token of their esteem and gratitude as was given to Marlborough and Wellington when they returned from suc- cessful wars; such a token as was given to General McClellan, who, when he came to live among us, was presented with a house in New York by several leading democrats. He haa appointed a few relatives to unimportant offices; but we shall not feel very indignant over this, espe- cially when we remember that not long since Mr. Gladstone said in the House of Commons that_ one reason why en English statesman could afford to hold the exacting office of Prime Minister was that he had an opporta- nity of doing for his family and friends what other eminent and able. men did in private pursuits. Certainly Mr. Gladstone's opinion will go far with the most fastidious critics among our journalists and statesmer. Beyond this petty tavern gossip nothing is said; and this paucity and monotony of assault form the President's best vindication. On the other hand, in every respect Grant has met the highest expectations of the country. He has, as we have said, kept every pledge made as a republican to the party which nominated him. He has made an honest, patient, resolute endeavor to reduce the debt, and althongh we have not, in all ways, commended Mr. Boutwell’s methods of managing the Treasury, we recognize that the administration has meant to fund the debt, reduce the interest and release the people from the burdens of taxa- tion, Without absolving the Secretary from any of our criticisms, we pass this to the credit of the administration. In the question of our relations with England we have seen the President grapple with the gravest problem in our diplomacy and settle it, and in that alone win for himself an enduring fame. In dealing with Spain there has been a patience, a candor, a single-mindedness of purpose which, although at times vexatious to an impatient and impulsive public opinion, has kept the peace and not permitted us to drift into a fretful and useless war. In the Indian question he has shown humanity and breadth of purpose wonderfully at variance with the savage and blind traditions of former administrations. Every Christian heart in America must throb kindly towards: President Grant for his humanity and good temper in dealing with the wayward children of the forest. In the Mormon question he has trampled upon an evilas gigantic as that of slavery— upon polygamy—which, as the remaining “twin relic of barbarism,” has been a scandal toour age. And go in evary instance of admin- istrative policy! At home and abroad he has preserved the honor of the flag and the purity of administration, Crime and mal- feasance in office have been severely punished ; and we have a President who will have no parley with roguery or incapacity in any department of the government, We have said that President Grant is a patient and much-enduring man, He has shown this in New York, and especially in our Custom House matters. Men close to him, or at least claiming to represent him, have intrigued themselves into positions where, from avarice or an unhealthy yearning for power, they have brought scandal to the ad- ministration. This general order business has been no more or less than a scandal, The merchants of New York bave been held in terrorism, A custom has grown up which is little more than the alliance of a gang of freebooters to stand dover every cargo that comes to the port and exact ‘‘tolls.” In the olden times bandits were wont to exact what they called “‘tolls” from honest mer. chants carrying their goods to London, or worthy husbandmen driving their cattle into the lowlands, This same custom has been per- mitted in New York, We have no doubt that our Custom House general order people felt they wore doing an honest trade ; but the coun- try does not so consider it, We agree with General Grant, that the arrangement made by Bixby, by which five thousand dollars a year were sent to an officer in the War Department as “tolls” to the administration, was an inoxousable trensaction, and we ero glad to » 8 we have felt all slong, that he was in no ways responsible for it, and that be will visit the offence, if not disproved, with severe punishment. The story that there are Senators on this’ committee who will oot examine this question thoroughly, because it might screen the President at the expense 1’ his military family, is astounding. Certainly no such evidence as that sentto-ys from Wash- ington has been elicited by the committee in their elaborate investigation. Let it be brought out at once. We can have no trifling, 20 céncealment in the matter... The honor of our President is dear to us, and it mast be pro- tected, no matter who suffers, One word to President Grant. He is said to meditate a coup d'état in New York politics and among our officials here, The country expects this, and no President has more cer- tainly answered the country’s expectations. He clung to St. Domingo until it was feared he had blundered. Suddenly he threw the whole matter into the hands of Congress and the people. He supported the late Collector until his party began to mutiny, and, although expressing bis own personal esteem and con- fidence in that gentleman, he abandoned him to the wishes of the party. In these things he showed consummate statesmanship. He believed in St, Domingo; he was fond of the late Collector ; but he permitted. no favorite | policy and no personal esteem for @ man to estrange him from his party and the people. Let him take another step and thoroughly revolutionize the whole civil servicein New York, punishing the guilty, removing the tainted, discarding every one whose reputation +has been mildewed by the slightest breath of scandal, Then he can enter upon his:canvass for a renomination and re-election, confident of a triumph as splendid and decisive as that which came to Washington, Jackson and Lia- cola. The people are ripe for this, and they expect il from one who has been pre-eminently the people’s President. Chiselhurst ond Versailles. We give to-day, from one of the HeRatp’s correspondents in England, an interesting ac- count of New Year's Day at the little Court at Camden House, Chiselburst. It is not, how- ever, that particular event—though that in itself affords substance for reflection—but the activity of the imperialists in and around Chisel- hurst which demands attention. The Emperor is as confident as ever that the Bonapartes will yet be called back to preside over and guide the destinies of the French nation. Everything, he claims, points to such a con- clusion. Ignoring altogether the Bourbon claimants for the throne, and allowing them in silence to settle their own right divine difficui- ties, Louis Napoleon gives President Thiers a few more months of power ; then comes Gam- betta, and with him anarchy and confusion; and after this the Bonapartes. In brief, these are the sentiments of the imperial exile and his opinion of the French situation at the present moment. True to his declaration of months ago, he bides his time, satisfied that it is coming. Still he by no means remains in- active. His agents are vigilant and untiring. He knows, through his emissaries, the feeling towards bim and his restoration to power in the Cabinets of St. Petersburg and Berlin. Prince Bismarck regards with no amiable appreciation the course of the republic in France. He thinks of moneys due and Ger- man soldiers murdered on French soil, The administration of President Thiers, it must be admitted, is not such as to assure the per- manency of the republic, and this conviction is expressed with a full appreciation of the difficulties he has to contend with, The Bour- bon intrigues in France for the re-establish- ment of the monarchy are quite as active, but not as ingeniously concealed, as the im- perialist plottings at Chiselburst for the restora- tion of the Bonapartes. Judging from the facts which ate every day presented, as well as the mail advices from abroad, the im. perialists are playing @ skilful and well covered up game. Only what they want to make known is presented to the public gaze, and the rest we must arrive at from inference. The French army of to-day is imperialist; the idle mechanic, tradesman and day laborer of the large cities are imperialist ; the French peasant is imperialist, and large portion of the clergy is imbued with the same sentiment. In the ranks of the Communists Napoleon has hig admirers, President Thiers knows very well this to be the case; but the very silence observed by this fearful Power is ominous, to say the least of it. If it was openly hostile it might take a shape which possibly could be encompassed. MacMahon to-day, as com- mander-in-chief of the army, is as mucha sphinx as was bis master when he sat upon the throne of France, Looking towards Chiselhurst and Versatlles, aud considering the aims and aspirations of the leading spirits at each place, there is much that is pregnant with ingerest to the immediate future of France. Tae PostaL TELEGRAPH IN Conornes,—It, is said that the Senate Committee on Post Offices has decided to report in favor of the Postal Telegraph bill, which Mr, Hubbard has urged in the House, with only trifling amend- ments. We hope a broad and liberal measure will be passed by Congress during the present session to connect the telegraph system with the postal service, and thus give the public the means of cheap and rapid communication. But let there be no job in it, If Congress is prepared to adopt such a measure the sooner it becomes law the better. Prompt action, with a view to the public interest only, might head off lobby vombinations and stock-jobbing schemes. : Mr. Tween has not gone up to Albany, nor has he gone out West; nor is it supposed by the knowing ones that he intends to go to Albany or out West. He is waiting here to ge what they are going to do about it in the Senate, and he can wait for the Senate as long as the Senate can wait for-him, Tur ApPrication For A New TRIAL oF Fos- rer, the car hook murderer—such application following the stay of proceedings granted by Judge Pratt, after he was convicted and sen- tenced—was to have been argued yesterday before the Supreme Court, General Term. Fos- ter’s counsel, however, having had his time so fully taken up with the Murray-Coulter litiga- tion, in which he is engaged, that he could not prepare himself for this case, the hearing was adiourned till the 10th of next month, for