The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1872, Page 8

SEASIDE LIONS OF 1872 ————— High Life and Administration Pat- ronage at Long Branch, GRANT AND HIS HYRMIDONS. The Presidential Dwelling a Failare as an Advertisement. POLITICAL RECANTATIONS. Horace Porter Comparing Notes Oeacerning the Great, Man of the Potomac. Gambling and Crumbling Par Excellence. EXEMPLA SUNT ODIOSA Walling Up the Ghosts of the Great Dia- mond-Studécd Departed. Loxo Branen, Augnst 3, 1872, A ‘contented mind is what the average man meeds for baggage inthe fashionableseason, What ‘with his house imperfectly guarded and exposed to robbery from outskiers and abuse from its cus todians; with expenses in travelling, which aMict huis sense of thrift and excite apprehensions of future pinching; with his household divided in pinion as to the proper place of refuge and the AnsuMiciency of any spot whatever'to equal the pos- ‘session of that oft-decried, but now, indeed, appre- lated family home, let him cling at any rate to his contented mind! Never check it away, but hold to ‘s diamond casket; and even ‘tas if it were his wife's “with a flea inthe bed, a mosquito singing on the "bedpost, short coverlet, hair full of sand and &@ waiter at every tree and post looking a couple of @ollars out of those well-understood eyes, let him— yea, he must—retain his contented mind or perish! i OFF FOR THR GOLVEN Coasts. A week ago licft New York and was the envy of No labor about thet work. Mere lite- and glimpses of the social improb- n who was to attend the races looked athe busy bee regarded the buttérfly, say- ‘Iie toils not; he only spins.’ The city re- porter said he asense of salt landscape, the first he had known for years, to see me quit the city. In two hours I was sitting on a trunk at Long Branch writing on a fragment of washstand, ‘with no place left to put the waterjug and utensils unless I attached them toa string and suspended them from the widow. The air was bleak and fogzy, the landscape naked and lonesome; a feeling of desertion and misery never felt in citles came upon me, and I fetched at once from the deep re- cesses of a contented mind some passages of phi- Josophy which were like the last remains of bread and cheese to the wayfarer. THE BRANCH AS A HUMAN SETTLEMENT. Sallying out fora ride, I was impressed with the waywardness of Long Branch village in growing ‘@way from itself. It was very extensive before—a patch of seed villas sown over an enormous pas- ‘ture, like a rim of dandelions on the great American Plains. The hoteis possess a stitMess in the sea air and broad gray light which reminds one of tele- graph poles in the desert solltude, or clothes and clothes props upon thé roofs of some illimitable elty. The air is saturated with the essence of shrimps; and lonesome omnibuses, carrying each one passenger—the reflection is melancholy of your- self—zo bowling down the endiess lanes of aistance with an effort to be frisky that is disconsolate in the extreme. Aiong the beach there are satu a flags of gay colors flouncing in the wind over two bathers—one with the gout and the other with an in- famed cave of prickiy heat—shivering in the break- ers of the infinite, while the woman who takes the money and stitches up the suits for her daily devo- tion is wringing out something grimly and has a crawling and crab-like countenance. Looking at ‘this woman and these two bathers you check anew pon your contented mind and stop in at the great hotel. ~ THE GREAT HOTEL IN THE MORNING. It is the time between batning and dinner, the part of the day when nobody will play poker nor appear even to himseif; when mothers tireaten to epank children for nothing and children hook each others’ toys in the passage ways and quarrel out of ‘the prevailing stimulus to depravity. At this hour inthe great hotel nine negro highwaymen rush upon-you with whisks and the boy with the daily Long Branch Strang ects you for his prey. At the bar you find Mr. hdilwild, late of the wholesale grocery trade—though in reality an orthodox note shayer at eight per cent | a month, deducted in advan With the commercial twinkle rich y roid, whose treat he has deciined, These two have been going through each other in the solitude of rroom, Highdiiwild getting points for future reference upon the habits of young men of prospects, and meantime, as if to be confiden- tial, giving a luminous exhibit of the national debt and the defects of ali the systems of resumption | As Asteroid is working up stimula- | yet applica. tion to the degree where it appeared to be com, patible at the club house the previous evening he Ustens out the morning. So goes the day, with women in dishavitie cogitating over toilets and old men tu the mysteries of the Greeley and Grant question, as the vival newspapers defame it, loung- Ang out the noons on the ptaz: THE COMING MAN. At five o'clock there is a prearranged awakening of everybody; children emerge from bandboxes and women from dar rlages; the hot an clerks come out from barber shops practise at baianecing pen-holders. A steam whistle is heard tothe alarm of the omnibuses, | wiich e Ald wyrate like mad, and then the cause ‘Of ail this motion appeats in View, the supreme creation and periee Woman was aided 1 of our Orb. —— to whom ght. 8 TO BE. trata arrives you can see this thing 1 upon his estate, ya brother}; next in ur woman's father; ring to his means a ag an afterthoi MAN AS UE 1S WHEN HE At the depot as tn sovereign of cre In the ignobiest for the scale of development a y third, and improving, sc devotion, a husian 1 self, the super There is a k ‘a nd of amongst these neve and MS rank uuknown—viz., the mate sex who comes down to the Branch to pass the night at our cottage. Until iis intentions be kuown and the state of his heart aud hand understoo! this latter being is Of no Couseque Whate’ 1 bs yl with a vailse in ie Bands Of the seaghore. Gathering unto “himself whatever afiertiou delongs to him, the sovereign gets into bis riage or the Omutbus and for awhile the dast and the roads again fli with teama. ‘Then solitu is resumed for an hon, and then the piazzas a the roads grow ilvely with the evening's seance, Such is life at Long branel every day but one in the week, the racing weeks excepted, and on said excepicd tives people who open a bottle of wine four times a year with a and a gluttonous chuckic a8 they do it, Ml the taverns, bathe with extravagant ad unnecessary enjoyment twice a day, aud otherwise slow that they are without a contented mund, and are a reflection upon thé sum- mer species. his hand, p THE BRAN WINKED AT. To people at a dist Loug Brave! composed of General Grant. To reguar summer species it At consists of Picasure yachman, ume avellin: cur ty hunter it Chamberiain, the ghost of Fiex aud the taverns, To the watering piace letter-writer of # contented ‘mind it is ai! that ie gan Iake of it. Imprivaia, You seé@ betore you, like a fringe of frame tenements, more than two miles of meander. ing town drawn up in sNiv military the ocean, which Mops lazily against t elay cliffs underneath, ay and our, « is merely ay to face hie foot of the Wher fn fringe gets into a tangle, near the middie, is th@shoppy part of the Branch, composed of a drug storé, some lager beer kegs, a pair of Jersey policemen aid other Inercan- tile matters, The Lotels are sometimes sizeable, the largest holding 650 peo e, They need o pneumatic tube to connect them, and an automaton telegraph, 60 that you can taik to your bess friend, Jor he may | potes with Gen :ral Horace Porter upon the re! —watehing | ang Aste- | josets; the lanes fll with car- | | Ing his daughter Ida ‘Mis: | Chamberlain and set up McGrath, be farther from ‘though both in the vil . than if ne in New York, This is the le ace in the world, except- at New London, If one be a contented mind here, he go it a%oot without stint, for it affords pleasing portynities for pedestrian jhmen and persons adpoit upon the velocipede. It is ten miles from anywhere to anywhere, Sit down anywhere, there You are, and, to add to your mortification, persons ‘With equlpages flaunt tlie factin your face. An old genticiman who bluifed the cabman on his fare re- Marked ag he got off at the West End:— “Well, here I am at Jast!”” p “Yes,” said cabby, ‘and that’s where you ll stay if you don’t like tobe paying hack hire.” People have been known to take root here and grow like trees, for meanness or the want of mea! to hire teams, The law of gravity presses ward at this spot as nowhere on the glove. dojlars and a pair of horses will haul you off teu other pedestal, but there you will take root again, and so on at every relay. “ Nonsense!” says am injured provesteaier: bil cuminaaes are going to and iro every little while, “Omnibuses!? exctaims Twothousandayear; “ who comes to the seaside to be dragged about in imfrequent omnibuses # The place was sown like seed by a drill, in one never-turning furrow.”” Still this eccentric Mnear city has many P seseyrrd cottages; it has come to stay; ithas a utiful race course, and the vices are tolerated ; big steam- ers run to it; General Grant decreed ft as George IV. created Brighton f the actors like it; many fine ladies leave it er fall with regret; Miss Ceres comes out {n the biaff of Long Branch and sbakes her tasselled head .at old inflamed Neptane suing for her on the beach below. No seaside place has such beautiful driving over' the back country Jersey reads, THE PRESIDENT’S COTTAGE. The Presidentis the proprietor of two houses here. Whether he received the first as a present or not, that is the expressionof his neighbors, whosce no evil.in it, A gentleman within a stone’s throw of the President sald to me:— “We all understood at the time that the cottage ‘was a gift by the Branch people most heavily inter- ested, There was no secret about it. At that time the spirit of enterprise was fresh here, Grant was universally popular, and all thought that he would give the place gueh celebrity and supremacy that it would become the capital of the seashore. Nobody reetys ar in any sense for accepting this volun- ary gift. As un advertisement for Long Branch tho Presi- dent has not been wholly the success expected, His indisposition to be anybody’s ion and want of adaptability and ease in large assemblies has finally left him to the exclusive company of the compara- tively few whom he thoroughly knows and under- stands. He drives dat in good weather, attends the greater bails and hops some- times, reads the newspapers aud does a certain amount of dally offictal business, Ris native shyness will exist with him through life, It is about equally the source of his popularity with considerate and sympathetic people and of his want of attractiveness to those who expect their heroes to bé brisk, frisky and enliveners of their species. Notable persons call once on him while herve. With cronies, thoroughly broken in— whether they be newspaper people, lich or poor— he talks as fast as anybody. GRANT. Grant ig easily to be understood and there is no proviem in him. A masculine man, made green nent late in life, when his originally sturdy, Scotchy nature was fixed unchangeably. He has little or nothing nervous or sanguine about him, any more than a breakor-in of wild horses or a cavalry sergeant. He is aware of all his defects and ashamed of none of them. He appreciates success. He is proud, without pong vain, and thinks himself the equal of any man in the general gauge of ability. He resents an injury, real or suspected, and turns his face from an acquaintanco not trusted without words or any later magnanimity, He Is unable to be flexible in any way, even to the extent of acknowledging an error, but he does not twice blunder over the same ground. He has no great ends ig view, but awaits occasions, and, without eee of any kind, can sometimes be nearly adroit. He cannot be called selfish, but he has no sentiments and does not much believe in words, We ts honest without being nice and HE JUDGES MEN LIKE HORSES, by two or three fixed marks and cannot be after- Warde persuaded to admire what he had rejected, He is industrious, without. being ardent, and his habits are as good, generally speaking, as any- body’s among his censors. He can be deceived and used, but he must choose the people to do it. He be flattered, but not too oiten, by In Here, around him he Gemandg’ fidelity, le recognizes nothing below him or above him, and in that sense is a re- ublican. He fs not a social animal, likes men best few at a time, appreciates the tuconvenience of poverty and rules the county as if he thought it old enough to help itself aud did not require to be set up with of nights, This appears to me, who have heard all the testi- monies about him and seen him go from Appomat- tox to Long Branch, to be truth, without enthasi- asm, about the President. He is not capable of being a great, system-comprehending, inspiring Tuler, who will leave monuments of institutions to commemorate his administration; but he is simple, ices of thetr princtpals. rant is perfectly certain,” sald natural, no tyrant and no pretender. Perha| he worst the country suffers from his control is the ruler and, at this period particularly, the want of @ more indignant hand and keener insight, to mr itself, after the example of the late profligate, patriotic, war. Colonel John Hay, a journalist, lately paver ative never Was more confident in his life aid Hay. “He never was half so confident.” “That's queer; but you know Grant never sees sense of the commonplace difused from such & and lead the nation, that it may cease plunder! ie WHAT GRANT THINKS ABOUT HIS ELECTION. Porter, “He “Greeley is perfectly serene,” anybody but those who come on errands of assur- Greele; A THE PRESIDENT'S PAR. Horace Porter has been a good deal as: he took a table at Grant's side, for tl was a “break up" In Grant's staff after he arrived at his hest distinction, the old staff, which drank whis- ¥, with tansey in it, falling back for the new tee | which drank champagne on ice, kept secrets and wore all the regalation buttons.. The new staff, led by Porter and his friend Babcock, proved close and faithful, and got the disdain of the frowsy men of genius on the original staff, Horace Porter, how- ever, seems to be well acquitted as a secretary and agentieman, is quietly popular with the majority of folks, is of good extraction and good bearing, and | has made the best of General Grant. He is a rat- | tiing story teller, remembers all things, regulates | his head to its capacity and has a delightial | Many pcople afirm that he is mouey-loving but We live inanage which demands proofs, | calla man in public life “a scoundrel’? only means that the exclaimer has no love for the exciaime against, Of the same purport are newspay | clamations against the new: er JOlks across th way. We ver butter the wv ‘melon of the man same business with oursell; he requires to | ndrel to make our posit! r occupies no more inferior to his David Humphreys and the best of of Presidents gone belore. | SPARE THE LADIES. spared the President's househoid. prove the /iberal republicans to have the cicauest Lon@ues; for Mra. Greeley, an invalid for years, has been assaiied alteady. Mrs, Graut Js, in alhhost every respect of temperament, her husband's op- ieee cuaiaedl outspoken, with high spirits and a jove of society aan re her husband along and compels many afriend for him. Not @ great beauty, | she has carriage and the Dent sociability—those de- | ligtfwi, confiding, geaial and kiudly Dents, who have Ween more inaligned for less offence than any | collateral connection of a President—and only the | meanest spirit could make imputations upon a lady 80 agreeable, not to say alluring. | NELLIE GRANT, LIKE MISS IDA | Greeley, is a sparkling girl, and she is a Dent all over, “The only Lknow of,” tinenta! piazza, ‘is that the reason against Greel said a devout Greeley polite! election that jan on the Con- nS Will be cail- as if it: rhymed with Snyder, Now, we wot rhymes with Snyder near ti THE GAMESTER OF THE BRAN Within half a mile of the President's two coi- tages, and around the West Ei Hoey’s, in a large lot, stands the 0 t club consisting of Chamberlain and ath and their several equerries on th. These two, also, are the directors- in-c o§ Monmouth Park, the celebrated race- course in the rear of the village. They occupy, asimiiar position to Morrissey at Sara- ho is at that inland retreat of New Yorkers tgamester and park proprietor. ting wh which al ive to exist, Morrissey says the about it, as he is a blad, incantions man; but nverlain hits Morrissey side-whacks in third party conversa ns and conveys the impression to strangers that the latter is Nis inferior in pros- 1 As both of them are quite too prosperous for such a calling, It may be to deSeribe them. EY TC BRO ‘en Chamberlain is anative of the Kast, went to is3c k ri ud was a popula’ t Jedferson City St. Louts and on at a youthfal acquaintance, pl and piped after- ne Western waters, aud, age, estavlished an ex. got an establishment of | finaliy, tensive his own, and during the war came East. About the same time McGrath, an ola and cele | bra w Orleans gamester, came oa to New York where Morrissey was driving a great “business” of the kind among the quayter- | masters, contractors and other patriots of the pe- riod. He befriended both theae men, employed Not agreeing lorriasey #et him adrift he had “backers” some capital, and waa ver soon on his feet. The whole trio thrived mously during the war, afwl when it closed M: went into stock breeding and the purchase and Sale of homp, i Kentueky, while Chamber. lain and orrissey ran rival uptown tablisnments. After Morrisse? distinguished him. Relfat Saratoga Chamberlain wiy seized with the cmuious desire to have a summer place also, and with the aid of Medrath built a fiandsome frame cottage and afterwards founded a Famijng park at Long Branch, These two, Morrissey and Chamber- lain, aid Lear, a gamester at Cape Mr” are the with Chamberlain It is @ remarkable thing that detraction has | is ov on these two there exists that degree of | nh neither expresses to the other, hut | good-looking ‘boy bar. | es. | watering place ‘“bapyera” of our summer resorts. Opinion ditters as to“thg PROSPERITY OF “4ORRISSEY AND CHAMBERLAIN. @) ‘a indicate that y ig the “er of the Western world, bee money, r vidual character an force, and ‘in the completeness of his establish- ments. Be has the most lous spot on which to pore fk the better Tikes of visitors, He has $200,0, invested at Sarat ‘and his word is therg with banks, m: 'o Y.a not the Italian ‘8 of Chamberlaii in; buteven in reits and speaks out trates and the populace, retti- mudheng, oun oa lees he has genuine pro! boldly and sincerely. ‘THE CAPPERS IN POLITIOS, Chamberlain always adhered to the Fisk-Tweed Ring; Morriaaey defied them. ‘Chamberlain con- ciliates people, loves luxury, and is at the bottom fully as peculiar as Morrissey, although more Oleaginous and smooth. Both men are hospitable, oblige people and succeed beyond their deserts, No one, probably, has any right to prefer either; but they are characters of the time, Chamberlain is @ quas! Grant man; Mo y is & regular Greeleyite, Morrissey sald a few nights ago that ho was ready to bet $3,000 to $10,000 that Horace Greeley would beat General Grant “to Spuyten Tuyvil river’—by which he meant that Greeley bier Saree ak ia. oe State, oe including e hu, majority in New + Ate there many democrats, Mr. iolasen, against Greeley?” “Not that I Know of. What reason has a demo- crat tobe against Greeley? He is the democratic candidate,”” “will Jimmy O’Brién be it him??? “I have never asked Mr. O’Brien that question. I take it that he is a democrat.”’ “Jimmy O'Brien,” sald a bystander, “had better beware how he deals with the candidate of the party in his barters.”” “should think O’Brien had better sense than to make any such foolish mistake,” said Morrissey, The cop vital elections before the big one will be Pennsylvania and Indiana.” The latter notable personage, who, by the Way, is as popular as any Senator, Supreme Judge or Bishop can presume to be, attending to his own affairs quietly, is opposed to Hoifman’s re- election ; for Morrissey occupies as high a piace in SpncetHlog to many as any of the Bar ation or the Committee of Seventy, having pecs to conspicuously defy it bofore the re- spectabilities moved at all, and when he knew he should certainly lose. WHEN 1'WEED'S LAMPS WERE BURNING at John Chamberlain’s gates at Long Branch John Morrissey stood ready to rule James Fisk, Jr., off his race course at Saratoga as an improper per- sonage to enter the grounds. Opposed to every vestige of the old Tammany, Morrissey walked up to the sick Judge Barnard’s rooms aaa boing a straight ol@ Tammany man), and, moved by bis dilemma, saia:— “Judge Barnard, all the delicacies of the season are at my house, You are sick and may need better nourishment than the hotels afford. Send your ser- vant with your wishes and my servants will freely bring back what you require |” ‘Yhe latter great ex-Congressman and king of spores is undoubtedly a puzzle for pbitonc ners. He is ick, to feel for the tumbled and ready to risk liis winnings on things with which he has sympathy, sctting aside for that Sympathy even his gamester’s judgment. How happens it—who can explain—tlat the muscular people, the un- sparin, are all for Greeley in preference to the any steat soldier, Grant? It must be that the hard-knuckled, the barbaric, recognize in the editor-philanthropist something which, miss- ing themselves ia oy life, they find in their conception of him—a King of the Commons, a motherly man, a tender Centaur—something of that sex of which they are perfections and something of that other sex whose best they reach toward with their great street-hardened hands like a eg child groping toward its wild ideal of a mother, “And if Greeley be elected,” said Congressman Roberts to a HERALD writer, “as he doubtless will be,-not his strength, but his sensibil- ity will clect him—his pity, his ready apprehension of the erring, the wreeked, the recoverable, First in mercy for the slave, first in mercy for the ruined rebel, first merciful for the struggling Cuban, the Irishman, the Italian, Siecle awakens feelin; everywhere, and the more they harp upon his weaknesses the more they strengthen him with human nature.”” John Morisey Ge that in Saratoga the leading republicans are for Grecley—men like Dr. Hamilton, Pond and French, the leading lawyers, and others of independence and property. #& man named Wheeler came from Washi in recently, and said that he was “authorized to bet $50,000 on Grant's election st ht.” Some- body started for Morrissey, and the other started for HOW THE GLADIATORS LIVE. Morrissey’s dwelling at Saratoga is a queer one— the only cottage in the great barren, ptt-marked grounds of the former United States Hotel, now sur- rounded with a high board fence. Among the trees of this yard, ae embowered, the gamester M. 0. keeps his family in @ comfortable relic of the former opulence of the place. Morrissey’s family con- sists of one son, John Morrissey, Jr., and an adopted son, the former aged about fifteen, the latter twenty. Mrs, Morrissey and her son go to the balls, and the latter lately ae eared in mas- querade at Congress Hall and decided a boat race on the lake, Mrs. Morrissey was the daughter of a Troy steamboat captain when Jobn was a deck hand; she 1s a large, impressive, portly woman, of good address and Intelligence. Chamberlain mar- ried a dame of St. Louis. He resides in a cottage near the middle of Long Branch, Both of them are “doing” a great season, between the turf and the baize. THE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Alleged Deticiency of Twenty Thou- sand Dollars Expiained—A Statement of Receipts and Expenditure—How the Report Originated—What Treasurer Hennessy Says. Recent reports relative to the expenditure and rece!pts of the Metropolitan Fire Department must, no doubt, have attracted the attention of the pub- lic. Among these it has been alleged that the re- port of the financial treasurer, James S. Hennessy, n account with the New York Fire Departinent Relief Fund bears a discrepancy of $20,947 17, a statement which, from more recent investigations, is apparently groundless. Ip order to ascertain the exact details of the case the writer called upon the Commissioners yesterday at the head- quarters of tue City Fire Department. Mr. Hitch- man, President of the Commrssioners, was absent | matter could be promptly told that the allegation was entirely incorrect, and the discrepancy arose from the mere fact of having examinedonly the report of the Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Combus- tibles, without paying due attention to the Trea- surer'’s account with the New York Fire Depart- ment Relief Fund, Upon a request to see the | Treasurer, Mr. Hennessy, the following explanation | was made. The discrepanc he said, arose from a misconception of the relations which existed between the receipts from the Bureau of Combusti- bles and those of the Fire Department proper. ‘The former receipts recorded the amount of oj} licenses | as $30,610, while the latter acknowledged ont; | $10,553'83 in their receipts, but credited, in accord | ' ance with their statute laws, the sum of $35,831 58 | to the Fire Department Relief Fund, in which ts in- | cluded the $20,047 17 supposed to have been em- | pezzied. Instead, therefore, said Mr. Hennessy, of | peing ridiculonsly charged with secreting the above | amount, it was only transferred from one depart- timates of another, in | a Of Our stutute laws | | ment ard included tn the accordance with that porti | in Philadelphia, but left orders to the presiding | clerk that any persons secking Information on the | he: white ef Fund shall r nd of the Metr nits of money tothe | tI ne to the Purposes of | the fuad heremm created, | Moreover, he continued, as long as the Burean Of | Combustibles is self-sustaining, our construeti f | the law is that it ought to pay its own expeng | consequently we pay back to the city the $10,553 which was paid by the department proper for ries. The profits arising from the Bureau of Co bustibies, althongh a portion of the ¢ law into a relic @ Relief Fund the statute testifies, members injured i their duties, and i} | id Re jet as henetit enarge of widows and families of dec of ot for the ased members, edon by th as amount paid being aly missioners, Hence it is to understand why in the treasurer's receipts there is an acknowledge- | ment from the a Combust of only id out and | $10,583 83, because this ipts of the | subsequeutly refanded Bureau of Combustiles 2 balance of the re- celpts, which amonnt to $35,531 51, Instead of tha alleged $20, is, a8 has been already stated, placed to the credit of the Relief It is evident that there is no | accusation which has been | consequence of an incomy | dental examination of the The following report of the de year ending April 20, 19 receipt from the Bureaa of Balance of appropriation last | Lessdeduction by Board of Appo s originally of the f " ment for the 8 the alleged | Appropriation to April 39, 197 m6 | [R valved from Metropolitan Fire Department... 15 | | Received from Burean of Combustiiie: veeeeee 30,588. | elved from sale of ol appara: 7a5 | elved trom sale of cloth, caps, &e. 20g | ‘oived from sale of condéemued hic 205 | elve.t from Fale of old hore 2 100 | Received from sale of wlegraph supplies 2 Total........ $331,636 uere ta, besides, a bill of $38,000 andited and an; also a bill Of $89,765 67 owed to the depart- ment by the Comptroller, The receipts of the Life Insurance Fund from the Gspartment during the car, from assessments, amounted to $8,913, From | tals there was a disbursement of $6,000. The total | cost during the yoar was $1,067,137 ‘#8, | Treasurer Hennessy, although not a little sur- | prised, declared he langhed a good deal over the | incorrect statement whic heticaee ‘s papers con- | tained, and evidenced not the least Indisposition at being interviewed ou phe subject, ‘ | tercourse laws, is absolutely. inconsistent. | GOVERNMENTS CA’ | eral territorial government for all the Indian tribes, THE INDIAN DOMAIN. Population of the Tribes and the Rich Lands Lying Waste. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE REDSKINS, Legislative Incapacity and Religious and Educational Bigotry. ACTION OF THE CONGRESSICNAL COMMITTEE, A New Indian Policy To Be Recom- mended to the Government, The Non-Intercourse Laws Prac- tically at an End. Boocy Dsror, Choctaw gouney;} Indian Territory, July 13, 1872. What is known as the Indian Territory is a region of great extent and fertility, lying between Kansas on the north, Arkansas on the east and Texas on the south and west. It covers four parallels of latitude, from 37 to 34, Inclusive, and about six degrees of longitude, from about 9430 to 100, The eastern portion of the Territory, and as far as the ninety-eighth degree, is owned and occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, each of these nations having !ts own territorial limits and its own distinct organization. The portion west of the ninety-el ghth degree is part ot the public domain, having been re-acquired from the Choctaws and Chickasaws since the first assignment of territory to them, and 1s now st apart as reservations for various wild tribes of Indians, as the Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. ~ VALUABLE LAND WASTED, Ihave before me a map of the Indian Territory, prepared by the War Department in 1806, which gives the following figures of the population of the four principal nations and the extent of country which they own or oocupy :— Pomulation. Area in acres, Cherokees 14,632 13,574,135 Creeks. 13,000 3,230,720 Choctaws. 15,000 6,638,900 Chickasaws. 5,000 4,377,000 MOtAR Scie 20's she vocceas oT ORR 27,821,805 In the Cherokee country there is a reservation of 560,000 acres, on which the Osages are placed, num- bering 3,375; and in the Creek country there is a reservation of 483,840 acres, assigned to less than five hundred of the Sac and Fox tribe; one of 576,000 acres, assigned to the Potawatamies, number- ing 1,336, and one of 200,000 acres, assigned to 2,300 Seminoles. The reservation assigned to the Arap- ahoes and Cheyennes (population 3,399) is weat of the ninety-eighth degree, and embraces over four million acres; and that assigned to the Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches (numbering 5,372) is also west of the ninety-eighth degree, and embraces over three and a half million avres. It will thus be seen that a region of nearly forty million acres, most of which consists of the BEST AGRICULTURAL LAND IN THE COUNTRY, and which has very rich mineral deposits of coal, iron, copper and lead, is given up, not to the use, but to the neglect and waste of some sixty-five thousand Indians, of whom more than one-half are in a state of utter barbarism, while the remainder are but little removed from that condition, and are entirely incapable of developing the natural re- sources of the country. The Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws have had set up for each of them a form of republican government, with an elective executive, judiciary and Legislature with two houses. Their reve- nues consist of the annuities paid to them by the government at Washington, in the shape of interest on trust funds, held for them. Not acent of tax is or could be collected from them, even for the support of schools, So, when these Indian nations, as they catl themselves, fall into the hands of thieves, as illustrated in my last letter from this quarter, and when their resources are thus dimin- ished, the schools are either closed up entirely or kept open only for such Period of the year as the school expenses can be defrayed. The lands are held in common, as was the custom of the German tribes In the days of ancient Rome, and they are very, much opposed to any change in this law or custom, A Choctaw locates his log cabin (they have not got any farther in the style of their hab- itations) wherever” he chooses, fences and plants his cornfield, and then claims the use of a quarter of a mile of land from any corner of his improve- ment. Of course, as he has no rigy4ef property in the soil, he cavnot convey it to avy other person, and vonsoqnently no one goes to any outlay or expense beyond his actual necessities, Such a system, while it undoubtedly guards against the ailenation of the soil, is inconsistent with the first step in the Shy, of advancement. And, there has not been any snc! step during the forty years that the Choctawsa have occupied this country, There is not a hamlet that contains a dozen hearthstones in the whole Choc- taw country, except, perhaps, the place where this letter is dated, and which contains just about that number; but the inhabitants are not Indians, but white traders and mechanics, who have settied because it was a convenient point on the high roi ern Texas, ‘The opening of the great Mis- sourl, Kansas and Texas Railroad, which runs some 3 will take from it very soon its only reason of being, and then Boggy Depot will tigure no more in the letters of special coriespond- ents, RAMROAD INVASION, The mention of the railroad leads me naturally to he point on which I intended thistetter to turn— that is, what new dispensation will be granted to the Indians? It is evident even to themselves that, with their country traversed by two great trans- verse lines of raflroad, as it now is, the non-inter- course laws which were passed by Congress to keep y out of the country must become a dead let- r. The few whites now settled in it have obtained that right, either by permit from the Uniced States | Indian Agent or by having married Indian women, But such subterfuges will not do for the altered con- dition of affairs, Four or five hundred miles of rail- | road cannot be constructed, kept up and operated, without giving employment to large bodies of la- borers, mechanics, operatives and ofticials, who must reside wit eir employment is. Stations must be established, and towns and cities | must grow up on the line of the railroad. With all of this the present Indian system, with its innlienability of real estate and its non-in- One or | the other must give way, and it will not be the railroad system. It therefore follows that the treaties by which this territory was assured exclu- Bively and in perpetuity to Indians and | all the laws based upon that id must be abro- rated. It may be hard for the government, which as pledged its solemn faith to these pe to find itself compelled to violate that pledge. But even IN THE WAY OF NOT BTAND PROGRESS. The laws of trade ave more powerfal than those of Congress, and even treaties mu ive Bef be- fore the Andit may be hard for the Indians, wih ve no respect for the laws of trade and who look upon railroads as the sure exterminator of their race,to have either to leave their present homes or to adapt then ta habita and customs, The onty question is, ronisti¢ to all their ide the thing is inevitable, What new policy ia to be adopted by which the | United States government will be free from the | crime of infidelity to its treaty obligations, the In- dians satisfied and benotited, and the obstacles to progress and civilization removed? The pian that has been proposed in Congress to establish one to be designated the Territory of Oklahoma, will not answer. There are several grave objections to it. The first is that ail these Indian national gov- | ernments are the merest shams and farces, ‘The great body of the Indians know nothing whatever | of the first principles that i to make up good citi- zens, The majority of the Indian council is in total ‘rnorance, ail the tune, of the meaning and effect of the various matters of legislation on which it is | called upon to act, All propositions are submitted in the English language, with which but few of the members of the Legisiature have any aa: The consequence Is that both council and people fall an easy rey to the superior cunning and the machinations of a few better in- formed among the hatf breeds, who, by intercourse with the whites and be occasional visits to Wash- 8 ington, acquire the arts and make the opportunity of enriching themacives at the’expense of the ibe. My preceding letter gave such examples of the extent to which THE ROBBERY OF THE INDIANS is carried on under the cyes of their legislative bodies, and by the connivance of their own chiet men, that I hive no need to dwell upon this objec- tion to local Indian governments. Another equally fatal objection to a combined territorial govern- ment {s, that the Choctaws do not understana the Cherokee janquage, nor tho Cherokee the Creek, nor any tribe that of any other; #0 that a legisla- ] trades and their - longer—I mean contentment. The poet who wrote | have been robbed, and ave prepared to recommend ives to an order of things an- | ¢ tive body would be a 4 » to be swindies Ww! @ part of our “ig 14 item, apply pach & ul wi (01 Congress, after a n Giscussion of the subject by the press and the people and after the report of the pongressiona) Committee now here shall have been printed and , to devise a practi- cal solution of the problem. 1 intimated in a prior letter my own idea that a government bascd upon somewhat the same BrBciple as that recently established in the District of Columbia would be, ifonly the proper persons were selected by the President to administer it, the most be re ater J would not, however, have any legislative body either elected or appointed, but would leave the sole control of affairs to a Governor and a body of Commissioners, with certain definite and assigned owers—for instance, over the administration of justice, over financial affairs and over the question of lands apd internal improvements. It may be assured at once that the Indians will never consent willingly to a breaking up of the present system; but, whether with or without their consent, it must be done and done quick! and the only question is, What can be best subs! tuted for it me of the leading Choctaws here express a preference for a State government at once, but of course that is subject to the objections which I have already stated as existing against a territorial orgamzation and to some others be- sides. It will take a long time and a thorough KNEADING OF THE INDIAN ELBMENT with the body politic before the republican form of gactramens can be put into full operation here. Indians-are deficient in the associative princi- ple, and that, I think, has been one great cause of ‘heir Cathe poverty and ignorance, They are shy and timid, and do not naturally form them- selves into communities or build up towns and villages among themselves, They have no diversity of pursuits, ‘The Choctaws and Chickasaws do a little farming ana cattle raising, but that is all They do not take to any handicraft trade, and have to rely upon the white traders in the Territory for every- thing that requires any skill in its production, The longer the present isolation between them and the whites existe the more rooted will their Indian eculiarities become. We must no longer humor hem in that respect, The best service we can do the Indian is to encourage the growth of white communities near him and educate him by ex- ample. Another generation will see this Territory, which is a magnificent agricultural region, an which is also rich in DEPOSITS OF COAL, TRON, LEAD, COPPER and other minerals, covered with flourishing towns and cities. Let the Indians be brought within the circie of the movement and they will advance with it, Thea sons will learn business and handicraft oung women will acquire house- keeping arts as domestics in the service of white families; and thus the influence of civilization will extend to and embrace them, That is the onl; thode In which they can be practically benefited, Further continuance in the isolation system will be the assurance of thelr extermination, But how is all this to be brought about? Under the precedents of our government the consent of the Indians must be obtained to a relintuishment oftheir title to the lands of this Territory. Until that Is obtained not a house can be buiit nor a farm opened, not an improvement be made with any, particle of security that it can be enjoyed or Bi le THE INDIAN TITLE must, therefore be cancelled. But the land is theirs, and they are pot willing to part with it. Any proposition of that kind would meet with a unanimous negative. They do not care so much about money, cattle or other property as they do about land. The instructions of the Choctaw €ouncil to the delegates who were sent to Washington in 1866 to make a new, treaty were to give up annuities, trust fands and every- thing that the Nation possessed, but not to consent to the cession of any land. They make little use of it, but et prize it above all things. The sug- gestion which their leading men make on that point is that, if their country is to be opened up to settlement, each Indian shall first be secured in his homestead and 160 acres of land, to be inalienable for twenty-one years and not subject | to execution; that the frecdmen among them, formerly their slaves, but now richer because more industrious than themseves, shall have the same rignt (they now enjoy the same land privi- leges as the Indian), and that then the remaining Forhoe of the land shall belong to the Choctaw ation, and either be divided Hp among the mem- bers, with ttre to dispose of it, or be held by the Nation and disposed of, for its benefit, to actual settlers, It is hard to question the justice of this demand, and probably a solution of the dim- culty may be made on some such terms. They might ve, and, perhaps, ought to be, modified to the extent of le ting the United States government TAKE CONTROL OF THE SURPLUS LANDS and dispose of them, devoting the proceeds to works of internal improvement and to the estab- lishment of common schoolg in the ‘Territory. At gna od they have a neighborhood school system ere for the Indians—none for the negroes—but it languishes for want of means, the school fund having been involved in the network of frauds, which I exposed in @ former letter, A certain number of scholars were also sent to and main- tained at higher schools in the States, principail in Texas, but they have had to be recalle for the same reason. The Chickasaws adopt a like gn and are still able to continue t, not having been robbed to the same extent as the Choctaws. The people are of various religious denominations—principally Methodist and Presbyterlan—and are said to be good Christians. The worst that can be said against | them is that they have too much of that virtue | which used to be regarded as Christian, but is so no the lines— Happy the man whose wish and care A tow Latuht aeres bound ; Content to breathe his native air On his own ground! would find this to be a country of happy men. There are very few crimes committed by ‘the In- dians, and their code has a very summary and etll- cacious mode of dealing with criminals—for the first and second offences fogging, and for the third offence death. Their courts take cognizance | only of cases where the parties on both | sides are Indians, All cases involving whites | or freedmein come under the cognizance of the United States authorities, aud as the | nearest United States Court ts to be found at Fort. | Smith, Arkansas, 150 miles from here, to which | place all the parties, their witnesses and their bails. | men must travel, it necessarily follows that there | is but little desire to prosecute men for trivial offences. That is another matter which requires | attention on the part of Congres | THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTED has closed up its investigation at this point and starts for the East to-morrow. So far as 1 cau form | an opinion I should say that Mr. Shanks (the chair- | man) and the other two members of the committee (Messrs, Burdett and Sinith) are indignant at the manner in which the Choctaws and Chickasaws the most efficient remedies to prevent further spollation under existingygontracts. They have also given their best attentl to the general ques- | tions of Indian affairs, and will, I hope, be able to } | devise a solution of the various dificult problems involved therein. THE LIBERTY STREET EXPLOSION, Distribution of Money to the Lijured Firemen. On June 22 an explosion took place at Nos. 18 and 20 Liberty street during a fire in the premises, by which more than twenty-three firemen were In- jured more or jess severely, A number of gentle- men started a fund for the relief of the sufferers, | which reached the handsome sum of $1,009. It was | distributed last Saturday as follows men seriously injured, $70 44 each; to the three | severely, $58 67 each; to the two slightly, $32 50 | each, and to the seven trifiugly $20 each, which ac- | counts for the entire sum, The following acknowl- edgment las been received from the firemen: “New Yor, August 5, 1372, | We, the undersigned, reetptentsof the fund collected for | the relter of the firemen tajured at the fire Nos. 13 and 20 Liberty street_on June 23, 1872, hereby return our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the geherous’ subseribers of said fund to James Sutton & Co., No. 23 Liberty. street, nks ave due for their zeal’ In collecting said tund | for the fejrand Impartial manner I which it was nally, and fo | distributed. Very respec | wineer: Patrick Donohue, | vy e- | James Munroe, as ‘ohn Batterby foreman, Engine Comp N i gine Company No. 6; James Meany, as rs look and Ladder Company No. 9) John Harri Assistant foreman; William Kitne, Thomas Mel" Hillis, George W. Smith, flreme: Jolin Regan, Thomas J. Corti Donovan, firemen, Enging Company 3 mara, Louis Schlamp, in Schwab, ghan, f en, Hook and Ladder Con ny ran | cls Mi fireman, Hook and Ladder 6 6; n Finn, fireman, Hook and Ladder Company No. 1; ames B. Hunter, Hook aud Ladder Oompany No. 8. | RAILROAD AOOIDENT IN JERSEY, A Brakeman’s Frightfal Bate—Collision on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. William Rutherford, a brakeman, employed on the New Jersey Railroad, met a frightful fate at the Market street depot, in Newark, yesterday morn- ing, between eight and-nine o'clock. While un- coupling cars his head was caught between tho bumpers and crushed to a horrible shape. He fiaped &@ few seconds and expired. He was anew | nd, having just gone on, | Yesterday morning the forty-flve minutes past six o'clock tram from Trenton ran into theColum- | bus, Kincorah and Springfleld train, about fifteen | minutes past seven o'clock, at Kincorah, The latter | train had arrived at the depot and was stationary | when the collision occurred. The two rear cars of | the Kincorah train were telescoped and the smoke- | stack of the train from Trenton was broken, The accident was the result of a einen” switch, and | the person who left it in condition to cause the accident was a brakeman named Charles Ware. He was in the rear car of the Kincorah train when the collision occurred and he is fatally injured, He was taken out from underneath one of the broken cars when the workmen cleared the wreck. At seven o'clock last evening @ lad named Ma- faire eleven years old, was run over by a train he Newark avenue cFossing of the Pénnsyivat Railroad, in Jersey City. One of his legs was severed from his body and he sustained internal injuries which, it is believed, will prove fatal. He was conveyed to the City Hospital on the Fourth of July, with the Benicia Sailing for Home, / —_+—_——. A Big Punch Bow! and Brilliant ment tothe French Flag—The Mikado’ rine Tour—Commercial Intercourse with © the Union—Cholera—Christian Mis sions and American Clerical Claims for the Cause of the Cross. Yorouama, July 5, 18%2A, The Fourth of July was a grand day with United States Navy in Yokohama. It was the assigned for the sailing of the Benicia, ho) bound. Her oficers, having had the promise two weeks before of going soon, were impatient even of the delay that was necessary to for the voyage, The Colorhdo -had sailed to adi, and she must return before the Benicia leave. She arrived on the 1st of July. Then men whose term of enlistment was nearly out went on board the New York from the Alaska at Shang™: hae, to go home on the Benicia, } The morning of the Fourth of July opened bright. and beautiful. All the ships in the harbor gayly dressed ont with fags of all nations, and, course, all colors, The officers of the Colorado, their best clothes, were on deck soon after breaké fast—eignt A. M. The Benicia was about to leaves Soon after nine o’clock her anchor was up and Was under way for home, She fired her salute to Admiral Jenkins’ flag, which was promp’ returned. Then the crews of the Idaho Colorado manned the rigging and gave three rousing cheers to the jolly tars of the Benicla as she steamed gracefully and beautifully i The band was on deck and played “Home, Sweet. Home” and “The Girl I Left Behind Me,’ to the inspiring notes of which the Benicla glide out of hearing on her homeward way, amid Wav! of caps and handkerchiefs or the jess fortunat officers of the Colorado, whoge fate decreed them stil! longer stay in the land of the “Rising Sun,’ o} rather on the adjacent waters. AMERICAN NATIONAL NAVAL FETE. With the elasticity of spirit characteristic of the true sailor, scarcely had the sound of the music die away, and the sighs for home excited in many @ breast by the sight of the receding form of the Benl+ cla, fading away in the dim distance, and the sugges tive notes of the “Girl I Left Behind Me," when @ jolly crowd was gathered in the Colorado’s ward- room, make good cheer in honor of the day! An immense punch bowl was brought out, som said ‘it was @ bath tub that had never poem used,” some said “Nary.”) It was soon filled! with an astounding variety of ingredients. Th compound, when completed, was called claret unch. Smaller contributions of champagne punch, c., Were floating around. But as Congress, in it wisdom, has applied the Maine Liquor law to thé navy, no distilled liquor was to be had, nor anys as that would intoxicate—if you did not arinig ‘St. George M. Totten was chosen toast master, After the first sentiments usual on such gccastons—] “The Day We Celebrate,” “The President,” &¢,—S1 Emory, whois fresh from Washington and au Jail in such matters, arose and in a very neat and hand. some little speech proposed, * renee;'s that great and gallant nation, our firm friend in the darkest hour of our: struggle for Indupenden cess to whos aid we are Indebted, for the fact oj having the day to celebrate, This was responde to very touchingly by one of the several French of cers on board. As the hilarity increased some on proposed “Our New Admiral,’”’ A delegation at once despatched to invite him below. He made his appearance and he was escorted wid tl post of honor at the head of the festive boa: advent of so important @ personage im} slight check on the exuberant young spirita ent; but the wine cup soon circulated with punch in it, and under the genial influence that inspiring compound all was soon hilarity | mirth again, Everything passed off well. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH THE UNITED STA! Hereafter, from to-morrow, steamers will lea’ Japan on the 6th, 7th or 8th and 22d, 23d and ry of each month; and if the English company put the line their threatened opposition we shall have regular communication with the United Sta three times a month, and probably in @ very sho! time four. THE MIKADO'S TOUR. The Mikado has left Jeddo for his trip through inland sea. He took up his quarters on board th Joshiu-Maru, an tron-clad man-of-war built France, and was accompanied by seven other vi sels of the navy. The embarkation took place ernie on the morning of the 28th ultimo, Mikado's flag was saluted by the forts and by foreign men-of-war. ‘ CHOLERA, Cases of cholera have appeared in Jeddo, there is some danger of its spreading and becomin, epidemic, Several cases have occurred during tl last few a3, and death has ensued within a y few hours of the attack. * } CHRISTIAN CHARITY. By the French mail steamer several Sisters Charity arrived out here to establigh.a branch their order in Japan, FOREIGNERS IN THE SERVICE. An official statement has been published in of the Japanese newspapers in Jeddo stating th number of foreigners employed in the Department of Public Works. One hundred and sixty-one fo! elgners are employe the aggregate cost paer per month. ‘They consist of English, 111 rench, 36; Chinese, 6; Mantllamen, 4; Americansy 2; Swiss and Indian, each 1. CLERICAL, MISSIONARY CLAIMS CONTRADICTED BY CHRISTIANS, » Isee by the New York papers that at the annie versary Meeting of the American Baptist Mission. ary Unton, held in New York on the 2ist of May, th Rev. Nathan Brown delivered an address, in ‘whic! he eulogized the Rev. Mr. Goble for “having su ceeded in establishing a flourishing Christian m! sion in Japan,” and wound up by stating “that among others whom that gentleman has conv is the Mikado himself.” The Rey. Mr. Goble, who was present, not only allowed the statement to pass unquestioned but made a_ statement of his own, which, to say the least, is very remarkable and curious one. He said “that { had been his privilege to travel across the with the Japanese Embassy, and that he wished t present to the Chief Envoy & copy of his trani tion of the Gospel of St. Matthew in the Japane: language, but before he could do so that dignit required to be introduced through the Americai Minister, After we becamo Aral oon; tinues Mr. Gobie, “the first thing he asked m¢ about was the progress of Christianity in Jay | He was very much pleased with the translation St, Matthew, and expressed a desire to have th whole of Japan evangelized.” Of course have no means of knowing what actu. ally did take place between Iwakura = an Mr. Goble; but knowing the characte of the former, and bis acts as a public man since he hag been in power, I am firmly convinced that either Mr. Gobie does not understand the Japan language or he has made an incorrect statement for it is impossible for Iwakura to have made suc @ remark. As for the statement of Rev. Natl Brown, it is so ridiculous as to scarcely merit cot tradiction, were It not for the fact that itis apt collection of aus for the support otmore igueras aC n of funds for the support of more ignoran: missionafies.”” ie i THE BRITISH FLEET. The British iton-ciad Iron Duke, flagship of Rear Admiral Shadwell, accompanied by e despatel boat Salamis, arrived here on the morning of th 6th inst. THE DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS, Meeting of the Board of Commissionersa: The Deposits of the City Refuse af Malden Lane. } A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Dock Commission was held yesterday to hear argu ments of property-hoiders in the vicinity of Maide lane and the East River regarding the proposed “dumping ground.” Mr. Roosevelt and other meré chants who possess “water frontage” in that locality complain that their property has Ba much decreased in valne since the dumpt ; ground was established,at the foot ot Maide Inne. A foul aroma issues from the enovaga there accumulated, ashes destroy perishab! | cargoes when the wind ts high, and Sonscdaenny Vessels will not approach the piers and slips in thi vicinity of Maiden lane in o eontents, vder to deliver their Mr, Roosevenr stated t hat om descriptions were de RR ee ape posited at the place above | Mentioned, and Mr. Whipple asserted that gar | Was “dumped” into score which were sometdine allowed to linger alongside or near the pier for @ leugthy.peric filling the alr with noweme odord and generaily afvocting the olfactory organs of per- sons who had business to transact in the locality. Mr. Woop, ove of the Commissioners, explained the necessity that existed tor “dumping grounds’? | in the city, and how diicuit it was to choose :thent. without deteriorating from the value of property! in their riciaite, With regard to them many things” had to be considered for and agalnst ‘The refuse, of the eity had to be deposited in scows and con- veyed away—that was self-evident to every reason- able person. How it was to be done without caus- ing an unfairamount of damage to any party was an enigma that required time to solve. The Com- missioners had tried to distribute what they ao eaereeed Was & nuisance to thg owners of pi erty on the river frontage in fajr proportions, an considering that there was but a small draught at water of the silp at Maiden lane, they had arrivi at the conclusionsthat it was the most eligible place in the vicinity for a “dumping ground.” , A very lengthy discussion followed, but no defis nite conclusion was arrived at, the Board deters mining to take the matter into consideration,