The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1872, Page 6

\NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. Volume XXXVII.......... seeeeNO, 339 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets.—Aanus. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Mursr Wives or Winpsor, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ama Thirtceath street.—Oun Ammrican Cousin. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brondway.—Arnrica: or, Livurgstowe anp Staxiey. Matinee at 234. BOOTR'S THEATRE, Twenty-tmird street, coracr Sixth @veauc.—Rowxo and JULIET. \ OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts-Kaxtiwontm. “Matinee at 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lorrenr or Lirs—Tax Lirruz Daur. ¥ ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM. Brosaway. corner Thirtieth st.— Ou Hamp, Atternoon and Eveuing. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, aad Eighth av.—Rouwp tax Cioce. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth etreet.—Itatian Ormna—Mianon. 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To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE PRESIDENT'S VIEWS ON STEAMSHIP SUB- SIDIES AND TRANS-ALLEGHANY AND SEA- BOARD CANALS! A RUINOUS NEW DE- PARTURE"—LEADER—SIxTH Pages. MOURNING FOR THE DEPARTED SAGE! DIS- TINGUISED MEN AND LARGE NUMBERS OF CITIZENS VIEWING THE REMAINS OF HORACE GREELEY: THE DECORATIONS: PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY—Tuinp Pac. RECONCILING FRANCE! THE FRENCH PEOPLE ANXIOUS ABOUT THE FUTURE: THE AS- SEMBLY PREPARING FOR THURSDAY: DECORATING TOMBS OF RED REPUB- LICANS—SEvENTH Pace. PERSONAL NEWS—THE WEATHER REPORTS— RESIGNATION OF CORPORATION COUNSEL O'GORMAN—SEVENTH PAGE, CONFLAGRATION IN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEA- LAND!—CABLE AND GENERAL TELE- GRAPHIC NEWS—SEVENTH Pace. WARRIORS OF THE PEN! THE HERALD'S CUBAN VOLUNTEERS: NOVEL PROPOSI- TIONS FOR CAPTURING THE “GEM OF THE ANTILLES: A CORPS OF SIX THOUSAND ALREADY: PLEAS FOR MR. HENDERSON— FourtH Page. POSTAL TELEGRAPH! MR. CRESWELL'S VIEWS: ADVANTAGES OF GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL: IMPROVING THE MAIL SER- VICE—Firte PaGR. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL! UNSPOKEN EULO- GIES OF MR. GREELEY: THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET TO ATTEND HIS FUNERAL: BUILDING UP OUR NAVY—SevenTH Page. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS! MR. BOUT- WELL'S RIGHT OF INFLATION: THE SHIP CANAL: THE SENATE WILL SIT TO-DAY— LITERARY GOSSIP—NintH Page, ‘MR. HENRY M. STANLEY'S FIRST LECTURE ON AFRICA! THE MARCH OF THE HERALD’S LIVINGSTONE RELIEF CORPS TO THE LAND OF THE MOON—Tuinp PaGe. JUDGE CURTIS BEFORE THE SENATORIAL IMPEACHMENT COURT! THE SENATE'S JURISDICTION IN THE CASE—MARITIME NEWS—TEntH Pace. LEGAL! WILLIAM M, TWEED'S TRIAL AGAIN THE POSTPONED: EX-SENATOR GRAHAM, PRESIDENT OF THE WALLKILL BANK, ARRESTED : STAYING ROGERS’ EXECU- TION: CLAFLIN AND WOODHULL BAILED: PAYING FOR THE FIRE ALARM TELE- GRAPH—Firta Pack. HENRY ROGERS, THE MURDERER OF OFFICER DUNAHOE! THE GOVERNOR TU BE AP- PLIED TO FOR A RESPITE—THE BLASTING CASUALTY—NINTH PAGE. WALL STREET BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS! STOCKS DEPRESSED, MONEY ACTIVE: THE ACTUAL EARNINGS OF ERIE—E1guTs Paos. THE DERBY-EVRARD ART SALE—MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES—Tainp PAGE. A BUSY DAY IN REAL ESTATE! THE TRANS- AOTIONS—PAYING THE PATRIOTS’ PEN- SIONS—Eianta Pas. Goop APPoINTMENTS BY THE Maror.— Mayor Hall has appointed Edward Delafield Smith Corporation Counsel, in placé of Rich- ard O'Gorman, who has resigned the position he has filled for seven years. The Mayor has also appointed Richard M. Blatchford Park Commissioner, in place of the late Robert C. Dillon, and Rufus G. Beardslee to the De- partment of Public Instruction, in place of Jadge Van Vorst. These appointments will satisfy all honest reformers. In Goop Taste.—The attendance of the President and Vice President of the United States at Mr. Greeley’s funeral to-day will be Properly appreciated as an act of generous sympathy and as a graceful tribute to one whose life has been honorable to his country and useful to mankind. We may reasonably accept it as an indication that the bitterness of the late political strife has passed away and that the degrading personalities of the recent campaign will never be renewed, Tax Topxiwsn Casmer.—The question of the succession to the Grand’ Viziership of Turkey presents a subject for anxious diplo- matic canvass in the European capitals and at the Court of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, as will be seen by ® cable telegram in $be Hznatp to-day. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEUEMBER 4, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. The President's Views on Steamship Subsidies and Trans-Alleghany and Seaboard Canalsk—A Ruineus New Departure. The distinguishing feature of the Presi- dent's policy for the future is that which is 60 broadly indicated in his comprehensive recom- mendations and suggestions to Congress on steamship subsidies and internal improve- ments. No half-way measures are here fore- shadowed, but a broad and comprehensive system of bounties and subsidies which will place the whole commerce of the United States, external and internal, on the sea and the land, in the position of a beggarly pauper, to be fod ftom the national Treasury. A brief recapitulation of the gratuities in this direc- tion recommended in the Message, and of the grand canal schemes suggested as within the province of Congress, will serve to disclose a programme for government contributions to private enterprises as broad as the absolute power of the Ozar of Russia, and fruitful in corruptions, demoralizations and wasteful ex- penditures, with all their inevitably disastrous consequences. The President informs the two houses of Congress that in addition to the railroads of the country ‘‘a project to facilitate commerce by the building of s ship canal around Niagara Falls, on the United States side (a grand idea), which has been agitated for many years, will, no doubt, be called to your atten- tention this session." Then, having broken ground gipon the general subject, he submits the expediency of an examination of ‘‘the various practicable routes for connecting the Mississippi with the tide waters of the Atlan- tic,” and likewise the feasibility of an almost continuous land-locked navigation from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico.’’ General Grant, ro- garding this project with the eye of a soldier, truly says that ‘Nature has provided the greater part of this route ;"’ that ‘‘the obsta- cles to be overcome are easily within the skill of the engineer,’ and that ‘such a route along our coast would be of great value at all times and of inestimable value in case of a foreign war.’ This project, then, is a sea- board ship canal, as continuous as practicable from Maine to Mexico, unquestionably a mag- nificent and most desirable improvement. But, if undertaken by Congress, what will it cost? How many millions no man can tell. Now, let us look at the inland canal enter- prises to which the favorable attention of Congress is invited. They embrace the proj- ect of a canal to connect the Mississippi Val- ley with the Atlantic, at Charleston, 8. ©., and Savannah, Ga., by way of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, with canals and slack water navigation to the Savannah and Ocmulgee rivers; the extension of the Kanawha and James River Canal through the defiles of the Alleghany Mountains to the Ohio River, and the extension of the Chesapeake, and Ohio Canal across the Alleghanies to the Ohio River. We entirely agree with General Grant in the opinion that all these improvements are highly desirable in view of the more cer- tain and cheaper transportation of the heavy and constantly increasing surplus products of the Western and Southwestern States to the Atlantic seaboard. From the incalculable commercial wealth which our great Erie Canal has contributed to this metropolis and which the Pennsylvania Trans-Alleghany Canal has given to Philadelphia, it is not difficult to con- ceive that the increased Western trade which similar canals would bring to Baltimore, to Norfolk and to Charleston and Savannah would vastly increase the wealth and popula- tion of those cities and of all the cities and States along these lines. But here the ques- tions intrude themselves—If Congress is to un- dertake these improvements, where and how will the money be obtained? and when and where will this Congressional business of in- ternal improvements come to an end? Next, in regard to the proposed increase of our steamship subsidies. To the Pacific Mail Stcamship line plying between San Francisco, China and Japan, to the line plying between the United States and Brazil, and to the Cali- fornia, New Zealand and Australian line, the Message recommends “such liberal contracts for carrying the mails as will insure their con- tinuance."" These are ominous words—‘“in- sure their continuance.” There is no limit here to the subsidies that may be required. But the President says that ‘an expenditure of five millions of dollars per annum for the next five years, if it would restore to us our proportion of the carrying trade of the world, would be profitably expended." The idea, then, is the recovery of our share of the carrying trade on the high seas, and to do this we are to create a monopoly which will be in the hands of the favored lines of steamers supported from the national Treasury, and for whose support all their unsubsidized com- petitors, with the people at large, are to be taxed. In our subsidized railroads, and in our steamships and telegraphs, and in our banks and bonds, and from the operations of pro- tective tariffs, and in our monster corporations in various things, have we not monopolieg enough already? They “have increased, aro increasing and ought to be diminished.” In the Message, however, we find a hint which suggests a way of escape from a gov- ernment of endless subsidies and monopolies which otherwise threatens us. General Grant says that ‘the price of labor in Europe has so much énhanced within the last few years that the cost of building and operating ocean steamers in the United States is not so much greater than in Europe.’ Emigration, the increased and still increasing cost of labor, of subsistence, and of coal and iron in England are in process of a settlement of this question. If in the meantime we cannot compete with the shipbuilders of Glasgow there is a shorter way than that of subsidies for the restoration of our lost carrying trade—the simple policy of liberty to our traders to buy their ships where they can buy them cheapest. But as some enterprising companies are now engaged in the construction of a dozen steamships, more or less, on the Delaware River, Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Rop- resentatives, may protest against this outrage of admitting foreign-built ships into free com- petition with our home industry. If so, wo can only hope that there are other men in the House who will still as forcibly protest against the unjust monopoly expedient of these steam- ship subsidies, This hot-house system of forcing the growth of our commerce is at best but a poor device. It is hardly better—indeed it is worse—than Mr. Boutwell’s Wall street gambling expe- dients for regulating the price of gold. And, grouping all these inland canal projects and steamship subsidies recommended or suggested by the Message, and supposing they are all adopted by Congress, we return to the very important question, What is the prob- ableamount of money that will be required from the Treasury to carry them through? The land-locked, seaboard canal proposed be- tween Maine and Mexico possesses what Web- ster would have called ‘an odor of nation- ality ;"* but if peaceful arbitration is henco- forth to be the last appeal of kings we shall not need this canal for warlike purposes, and tho money required for its construc- tion, which will probably be all of a hundred millions, would be better applied in the work of an interoceanic ship canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragaa or Darien. These projected Southern Trans-Alleghany canals would cost each perhaps from fifty to a hun- dred millions; and the Niagara ship canal, to be of any great value, would hardly be com- pleted with less than twenty-five millions. Of course in these enterprises, excepting the Niagara and the Atlantic seaboard canal, the government would pay onlya part of the costs of construction; but from these examples every little river, inlet or harbor in the United States, with any pretences to navigation, would demand an appropriation from the Treasury, and would get it, too, through the Washington lobby, and thus thesum of all these jobs in the end would be many hundreds of millions of dollars, So with these steamship subsidies. If you subsidize one line you must, on the rule of equal rights, subsidize another, and so on till our whole carrying trade on the high seas and coastwise and inland becomes a grand monop- oly in the hands of the Secretary of the Treas- ury. For what better right has an ocean steamer to a government subsidy than a coast- ing schooner or an Erie Canal boat, we should like to know? The worst of it is that with the adoption of these steamship subsidy and canal jobs a flood of corruptions, frauds and embezzlements will set in which will swamp the Treasury and bring upon the country 4 ruinous financial collapse, with all its evils of bankruptcy and repudiation. This is the abyss which lies at the end of the road to which the President unwittingly invites Con- gress in the Quixotic government enterprises we have been considering. The Message is remarkable for the prodigality of expenditures therein recommended in every direction, but the new departure on these subsidies and in- ternal improvements opens the way for a policy of endless jobs and endless corruptions, and for expenditures which can end only with the oxhaustion of the Treasury. Congress Yosterday. In tho House evidences were given yester- day of a determination to commence work. ‘The proceedings, though not in any way ex- citing, brought out some of the old Con- greasional wrestlers on the bill introduced by Mr. Schofield, from the Naval Committee, to build ten sloops-of-war. It is a fact admitted on all hands that the ships of our navy, particularly those vessels on cruising service, are, in the majority of cases, worthless. Con- structed during the war of unsound timber, many of these are now absolutely rotten, and unless something be done to mend. matters wa shall find ourselves without sea-going vessels fit to carry a battery. This proposition to construct ten handy vessels is, therefore, worthy of serious consideration. While de- bating the subject it is well that the condition of our navy should be fully discussed, in view of contingencies which, no matter how much administration men may deny it, are always possible with a nation having such wide interesta to protect. It our Sommerce now is a mere fraction of what it should be we may reasonably hope that, sooner or later, it will be worth all the expen- diture which Congress may think fit to appro- priate for its protection. But we do not want money squandered on fleets designed at hap- hazard and built to save appearances. What the country requires is a uniform plan, with ships of war of the latest and best model, which will not ina fow years in turn require a jeremiad on their uselessness. A resolution was passed requesting information from Secretary Boutwell on his authority for the five million dollar currency reissue of October last. The Senate was the scene of a piece of strategy by Senator Cameron, which resulted in its immediate adjournment to cut off a resolution intended to be offered by Senator Fenton, that when an adjournment did take place it would be until to-morrow. The in- tention was to afford a large number of Sena- tors an opportunity to attend the obsequics of Mr. Greeley. If this latter resolution could be condemned on any grounds worthy of respect, the mode of crushing it was as in. decent as it was stupid. The reewlt—the loss of an entire day—nvoves the justice of this opinion, ne inatter how severe it may appear. Tux AtBany Argus (opposition) concludes its review of the President's Message as fol- lows: —‘‘One reflection follows the perusal of this state paper. We area great people, and if let alone and freed from the intermeddling of government, are sure of a great prosperity,”’ Coming from a democratic source, this may be taken as quite a favorable criticism of an administration state paper. Tae Norra Canonma Seunatorsur.—The deadlock in the Legislature of the Old North State consequent upon the difficulties experi- enced in selecting a popular United States Senator has at length been broken. It will be remembered that ex-Governor Vance and Judge Merrimon have both been soliciting the honor on the conservative side against John Pool, the republican candidate. For neasly a week past the struggle has been going on be- tween the contestants, each ballot giving a different result. All legislation was sus- pended during this conflict. AtJlength, after much bolting and party harassing, Judge Mer- rimon has been elected, the vote yesterday re- sulting as follows: —Vance, 80; Merrimon, 87. Tue Sprtnormip Republican, referring to the Heraty’s suggestion of a chain of American republics on this Continent, stretch- ing in time from pole to pole, &c., says it is substantially Mr. Summer's policy, and will bear thinking of, as Byron has said, A single drop of ink May make thousands, nay, millions, think, And if we have so far brought this im- them “think,” a great step ia gninod toward accomplishing the object in view, portant subject before the people as to make‘ A Tribute to the Memory of Horace Greeley. The death of Horace Greeley and its sad surroundings have touched the heart of the nation. Eloquent tributes have been paid to his memory by those who were but recently his enemies, as well as by his friends, and the people havo shown by their genuine ‘grief at his loss their appreciation of the value of his life. It is an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. In this memorable instance the tragedy of real life is deeper and more affect- ing than any that could be drawn from the realms of imagination. It seems only yesterday that Horace Gree- ley, full of life and hope, stood before the American people as a candidate for the high- est office in their gift, For years he had been known throughout the nation—we might al- most say throughout the world—as a success- ful journalist and an carnest philanthropist. It would be superfluous now to enlarge upon his many excellent qualities and upon the good he accomplished during his lifetime in behalf of the weak and the oppressed of all climes and of all complexions. The last pub- lic honor conferred upon him was his coun- trymen’s acknowledgment of his services and their just tribute to his worth. No ordinary citizen could have reached such distinction. To-day he has done with earth; its cares, its toils and its rewards are nothing to him now. Four weeks ago he followed the remains of his wife to the grave. To-day he will be followed by his friends to his own resting place. He leaves his two young daughters stricken by a double loss, Their father has been taken from them before their hearts had ceased to bleed for the death of a beloved mother. Their fairy dream of a happy and brilliant future has indeed been cruelly dispelled. We propose that the sympathy felt for these afflicted children shall take a practical shape. Mr. Greeley has died in very moderate circum- stances. His estate will leave but an innde- quate support for his daughters. We believe that the journalists of the United States, to whom Mr. Greeley’s life has been valuable in its teachings and its example, will feel a pride in contributing to a Press Fund for the endowment of his children. There aro a few over five hundred prosperous daily newspapers in existence in the United States and over four thousand five hundred weeklies. Some can, of course, afford to contribute much more than others to such an object, but a subscription averaging only twenty-five dollars each for the dailies and ten dollars each for the weeklies would raise an amount of over seventy thousand dollars. Tho Henatp gladly heads the list with a subscription of one thousand dollars, and will be pleased to receive such contributions to the fund as its contemporaries may think fit to forward to its care, and will hand them over to such trusteees as may be agreed upon by the family and friends of the deceased journalist. If merchants and others outside the press choose to unite in this testi- monial to a distinguished, useful and kind- hearted man we shall be happy to acknowl- edge their contributions; but we feel confi- dent that, so far as the press is concerned, & prompt and generous response will be made to our suggestion. No more appropriate tribute could be offered by American journal- ism to the memory of Horace Greeley than one which benefits those who were the nearest and the dearest to him in life. France—Confidence Restored, but the Situation Still Doubtful. Our news from France this morning con- firms the opinion which we expressed yester- day, that the reconciliation of President Thiers and his Ministers had for the present restored confidence in the government and re- assured the. Ffench people. Throughout all her borders France is calm. At the same time an uneasy feeling prevails as to the pos- sible action of the Assembly on Thursday first. M. Dufaure’s motion, which saved President Thiers, provides for the appoint- ment by the Assembly of a committee of thirty to draw up a law regulating public powers and prescribing the conditions of ministerial responsibility. It is quite natural that the political parties, and, indeed, the whole thinking population of France, should be anxious about the organization of this committee. Our readers will remember that M. Dufaure’s motion was carried in the As- sembly on Friday last by a very small ma- jority. Everything will depend on the organi- zation of this new committee. The Right will do its best to secure a majority in the committee, and as the Right is strong nothing but a willingness on its part to conciliate, if conciliation is possible, will prevent it from appointing a committee subservient to its wishes, If the Right should succeed, it is not impossible that there will be another dead- lock on Thursday first. We are not, there- fore, at all surprised to learn that the Répub- lique Frangaise, o Paris journal devoted to the cause of the Republic, is full of fear as to the result on Thursday, and disposed to believe that in the event of defeat on the organization of the committee on that day President Thiers may consider it his duty to resign, and his supporters of the Left, following his example, may withdraw from the Assembly, The situa- tion is thus peculiar. There is quiet for the moment, and a disposition towards political party fusion and conciliation is apparent. France is not unwilling that Presi- dent Thiers and the Assembly, if they can agree, should continue to rule over them. But a feeling of uncertainty is general, To-day it is order; to-morrow it may be chaos. M. Dufaure’s motion was a compromise, It was the less difficult for the majority in the As- sembly to allow it to pass, that they knew the fight must be resumed on the appointment of the committee. On Thursday first the fight of Thursday last will be resumed, but with what results we must wait to learn, Tae Atvany Journal (administration) in commenting upon a Washington statement that the friends of General Grant in that city are annoyed at the intimation that ‘the eyes of the administration are ona third term,” says if this be the fact, then ‘General Grant has some silly friends in Washington,’’ add- ing, “It would be just as reasonable for them to be annoyed at an intimation that he in- tended to make himself king.’”’ A Vinanna Papen is thankful because the Governor of that State refused to endorse President Grant's recommendation for a national Thanksgiving. How somo people do love to hug migery ! Our Volunteers for Ouba. The response which has met our call for volunteers to Cuba, as proclaimed in Sun- day's Hunan, is a most flattering proof of the manliness, pluck and ability which are dis- tinctive of the average American. The unfor- tunate withdrawal of our correspondent, Mr. Henderson, from the scene of his duties before the accomplishment of his mission, under the bratal threats of the Spanish soldiery, has evoked the aspirations of thousands to take the post of danger who wore, perhaps, until the Sabbath morning, when the Hxnarp was laid on tho breakfast tablo before them, quietly settling plans for a future of mercantile peacefulness. This is not sur- prising ; the determined men from all classes who trooped to the Henaxp office for the purpose of offering their services were the stuff that heroes aro made of; men who, no matter how deeply immersed in business, turn readily to things which offer honor as the end of toils, dangers and priva- tions, Those who have watched the alacrity with which during the late war men of tho most undemonstrative natures and refined bearing adapted themselves to the rough-and- ready amenities of soldiering with a will, would not have been astonished to observe men of this description among the applicants at the Hunaxp office yesterday and Monday. Brokers, merchants, lawyers, artists and actors offered their services, with every guarantee of good faith. Men who generally float around when any stir is made—the professional revolutionists—were not present in such num- bers as a tyro in such matters would have expected—there was too great an air of reality and too little outside show to attract them. Men from the humbler walks of life, but with sturdy frames and lion hearts, mingled patiently in the throng anxious to secure a post in the Cuban service of the Herat. Thoughtful men predominated, who ocx- preased their views with the calmness of true courage, although s number of wild, hair-brained, devil-may-care individuals called with all sorts of visionary schemes. Our cor- respondence on the matter, much of which, from its mere quantity, remains yet unex- amined, presents, so far as conned ovor, the same mingled characteristics. Of the nation- alities of the volunteers, the names of thoso given in the article on the subject published elsewhere will be a fair indication. With these and others noted privately, the courage of the entire civilized world was represented. Outside of Ameri- cans, North and South, our adopted citizens held the largest place, Germans and French- men united in the cause of the Hznatp, Irish- men, Englishmen and Scotchmen, the formerin largest number, vindicated their respective na- tionalities, The brave children of down- trodden Poland and the sons of Hungary claimed the opportunity for fame through the Henatp. Swedes, Itlians and one Spaniard, joined with a Groek doctor in the application. It would, of course, be premature to speak of the tendency of our decision in the matter; but the patent moral is already visible that there will be no lack of first rate materials for a proper selection. ‘We cannot with our present information enter fully into an explanation of the failure of Mr. Henderson's effort; but the. stroiigest circum- stances which brought it about and which have already been published show the diffi- culties which will attend the Henatp expedition that will take his place. It is cer- tain, however, that the work of examining impartially and in a spirit of progress and humanity the workings of this mysterious warfare will be accomplished. If Cuba has no knowledge of the mission of a free press it will bea glorious portion to teach them. None but moral cowards and the champions of in- vincible ignorance will place obstacles in the way of its success, A Cuban organ of tho Spanish government, in commenting on the presence of a Henatp correspondent in the island, said that if every American journal sent out a “special’’ Cespedes could form an army corps of them alone. The preju- diced writer little knew that he was about to witness the extraordinary fact of thousands of American citizens volunteer- ing to brave all the dangers, which it brutally insists should be their lot, 1m the service of one journal, and that the paper whose representa- tive it went out of its way to insult. In view of the encouraging spectacle we feel assured that there will be a flood of impartial light thrown on the subject, whose brilliance Spaniard or insurgent cannot question, The Police Raid on Policy Dealers. Of all the sharks who prey upon the poor and the ignorant in New York none do more cruel work than the policy dealers, In their little shops, which may be found in almost every crowded neighborhood where poverty throngs, they drain, in dimes and quarters, the earnings of industry, slowly, though surely, impoverishing their victims and pre- paring them for a career of crime or pauper- ism. With false offers of the chance for large gains they delude their weak-minded sup- porters. Occasionally they pay a “‘lucky’’ cus- tomer, who thenceforth becomes o constant client, and may be counted as a sure contrib- utor to the gains of the dealer so long as there is a dime to invest. But the majority of the infatuated patrons of this petty scheme of gambling never win a dollar, yet constantly indulge the hope that, through some magic dream or conjuration, they may hit a winning number and enjoy the possession of money they have not earned. Hardly a more demor- alizing institution curses this city than policy playing, and all well wishers to the commu- nity will approve the action of the police in endeavoring to break it up. Eveny one of the dealers ought to be breaking stones on the Island or serving the city in some way, instead of prosecuting his infernal business. If we have a law which will punish these miscreants it should be faithfully administered. If there is none, then to frame and pass one should be an early business of the coming Legislature, Tur Exanna Gazette (democratic) does not think that General Grant will pursue an in- dependent course in his new administration, and avers that ‘“‘he must go with the men who now control him or else he must abandon his party.’ Not only his own party, but all other parties, and riso proudly above partisan cor- ruptions of all sorta, In carrying out his ideas of civil reform he can give the ancient party hacks of all shades and colors such a shaking up 06 will make their old bones rattle even in their political tombe $$$ $$$ er Mr. Stanley's First Lectures ‘The discoverer of Dr. Livingstone appeared for the first -time Inst evening before a New York audience to relate from Personal empe- rience his views on “Life in Central Africa and the Horrors of the Slave Trade.” The remarkable feat of journalism which has sow passed into history, and which lias attracted the deepest attention, not only of thelscien. tifio world, but of the general public too, made the name of Stanley a household word here even before his return to the land of his birth. Therefore the interest exhibited by the select and intellectual audience that assembled to hear his first lecture showed how the Ameri- can public can appreciate the signal triumph of one of thoir representatives. The interest- ing and lifelike description of the topography of the Land of the Moon and the sad examples of man’s inhumanity to man alluded to during the course of the lecture gave to the hearers such an insight into the hitherto unknown regions of Central Africa as carried the mind from Zanzibar to Ujiji, through scones of appalling danger and unheard-of sufforing. There wero also on either side of the speaker objects of interest calculated to fix the atten- tion of the audience upon the subject of the lecture, On tho left wasa large map of Central Africa, showing those regions through which Livingstone and Stanley wandered, where Speke and Grant first beheld the waters of the twin lakes, which they named after the sovereign of England and her lamented épotse, and where the most wonderful river in the world has its source. On the right of the speaker's desk were objects still more intereat- ‘ing—specimens of the deadly weapons of war- fare with which Mirambo armed his legions when he sallied forth against the Arabs of Un- yanyembe and when he met the gallant band from Zanzibar in search of the hero explorer. There was also the identical American flag that greeted the eyes of Livingstone when, sick and faint, ‘a mere ruckle of bones,” he had almost abandoned all hope of succor. Near the glorious Stars and Stripes was the flag of the Sultan of Zanzibar and folds of the cloth which may be termed the ‘national! currency of the Land of the Moon. The dusky Kalulu—the faithful youth. who accompanied Stanley in his perilous journey—and the brother of Dr. Livingstone were also present to lend an additional in- terest to the scene. The carnest mannor of the lecturer showed a degree of enthusiasm in his subject that was not lost on the andigice. The names of tribes, kingdoms and towns of the newly explored regions fell on ears unused to them, bug the admirable manner in whick Mr. Stanley photographed, as it were, in the minds of his hearers the strange, eventful scenes through which he so triumphantly passed, made even dry geographical details attractive. As he warmed inte his subject his desctiptions became more interesting and his audience more deeply impressed. Rarely has @ lecturer been called upon to handle ‘a subject so difficult and abstruse, and rarely have efforts in the rostrum been crowned with similar success. The second lecture of Mr. Stanley takes place this evening, when he will relate the interesting history of the march of the Heratp expedition into the Land of the Moon. Pat~cm-on-the-Back PolicysIn« dian Massacre of Settlers. Commissioner Walker's report on Indian affairs was satisfactory to a certain extent. It showed a saving in expenditure and a measure of progress with the semi-civilized tribes located on the skirts of the frontier States. But that it demonstrated the wisdom of the “peace policy’ of the Quaker-evangelical junta, that from the Rio Grande to Alaska does for the savage what Mr. Bergh does, and desires to do, for tho lower animalsa— that is, interferes to save him from whippings when he deserves them, and smiles while he kicks in his traces—few who know anything of Mr. Lo will care to admit. The Indian question is not yet settled, and never will be by periodical manifestoes filled with para- phrases of the Sermon on the Mount. We aro informed by telegraph from San Francisco that Mr. Commissioner Walker has been afforded by the Modoc Indians on early opportunity of correcting some of his more confident assertions concerning the success of tha peace policy of the administrations The Modocs having been ordered by the authorities to remove to the Klamath reserva- tion in Oregon refused to go; a fight took place between them and the First cavalry in consequence, and a number of soldiers and savages were killed. That was the opening scene in the tragedy. Now we are told that the Modocs have massacred all the settlers on Link River and that eighty warriors are in the field, and are opposed by only thirty-five soldiers from Fort Klamath, The last state- ment in the despatch, that companies are form- tng, is, however, comforting. In the mean- time, however, and before the people of Ore- gon take the settlement of the Modoc diffi- culty into their own hands, it would be well for Mr. Commissioner Walker to tell us what he is going to do about it. The Tue Boston Advertiser (administration) dep» recates the ‘on to St. Domingo’ policy which some of its contemporaries advocate. It takes the Philadelphia North American to task for desiring not only the acquisition of St. Domingo, but also that of Cuba, the Danish West Indies, the Navigator's Islands in the Pacific, British Columbia, some islands near Terra del Fuego and a slice from Mexico. ‘The Advertiser suggests that if we were not too proud to take a lesson from Great Britain wo might gain something from her experience, She is ready to let Canada go in peace, Australia is becoming accustomed to the idea of ultimate independence, and her colonies generally are burdensome to her. The policy of wholesale annexation does not seem to be popular even among the leading administra- tion papers. Tax Burrato Courier (democratic), in a leading editorial, we have already made that a very respectable number of the best newspapers in the country have recently avowed their in* express terms, and the result has been that they are strengthened with their readers by the avowal. Among them it names the Now York Tribune, the Springfield Republican, tha’ Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Hnquirer, tha Missouri Republican and many others of lees Prominence, The Courier remarks that “a movement of this kind is certainly gathering strength throughout the country, and it confirms the statement -