The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1872, Page 6

y 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = Volume XXXVIL.,. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Arnica: on, Tavincstonx aND STANLEY. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue,—THx Litty oF France. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between @ouston pnd Bleecker sts.—La Bruix HELext, \ GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third fy.—Das Stirronarest. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tunxe Fast Mex— ‘Pick TuuriX. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: Banus x tux Woop, Aiternoo ‘_ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Rounp tax Crock. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and “Houston strects,—Lxo anv Loros, \ UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, betwoen ‘Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. —Aanxs. IFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Maneep Lire, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ptreet,—Our American Cousin, MRS. F. B. 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A REPORT ON THE CUBAN SITUATION AND PROSPEC’S BY THE HERALD COMMIS- SIONER TO THE ISLAND! MR. HENDERSON i BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY! PHIC DETAILS OF WHAT TIF SAW IN SH AND CUBAN CAMPS! A PEOPLE RESOLVED TO BE FREE—Tuip, Fourri AND FirTH PAGEs. ALITIES! KELLOGG & CO. LECTORS: THE WARMOT REPLY TO THE ATTORNEY @ RAL—SEVENTH PAGE. WEATHER REPORTS—THE “BEAUTIEUL SNOW" — UTAH—TnuRp Paar. BY CABLE FROM EUROPE! NAPOLEON PROM- I1SED AUSTRIAN ASSISTANCE IN THE LATE WAR: SPANISH SLAVERY ABOLITION AND CABINET RECONSTRUCTION: BISMARCK’S RESIGNATION—SkvENTH PAGE. GOVERNMENT CONTROL POSTMASTER FIELD AND RE NEW ORLEANS IL THEIR OWN by PAGE. ARREST OF MR, BANKER! STATEMENTS OF THE GENTLE MAN AND HIS COUNSEL—MARITINE LY- TELLIGENCE—TEntH Pace. ®{R. GREELEY'S WILL CONTESTED! THE TES- TATOR’S BROTHER AND THE TRIBUD THE CHARLES BOWLES, FOREMAN ON THE WITNESS STAND: EVIDENCE AS TO INSANITY: IDA'S DEED—TuIRD Page. IMPORTANT EVIDENCE IN THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL CALAMITY! A CORONER'S JURY INTENT ON FERRETING OUT THE TRUTH— A NEW BOULEVARD—ELEVENTH PaGE. DR. IRISH'S ARRAIGNMENT! MRS. ANDERSON IN COURT: THE RULES OF EVIDENCE ESSENTIALLY MODIFIED: TESTIMONY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SUICIDE THEORY—ELEVENTH PGB, STOKES AGAIN AT THE BAR OF JUSTICE! THREE JURORS OBTAINED: PRESS LIBERTY: GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—E1cutn Pace. MANIPULATING THE WALL STREET, MARKETS! OPERATIONS OF THE “BULLS” AND “BEARS” IN MONEY, PACIFIC MAIL, GOULD AND WESTERN UNION—Nintu PaGe. PACIFIC MAIL STRATEGY—REAL ESTATE—MR. KENSETT’S FUNERAL—MARINE ACCI- PENTS—THE ITALIANS—NintTu Page, Saeco eee eke, | fme Srantsn Contes—A Cuxentna AN- ‘NoUNCEMENT BY Paime Mowstes Zonrria.— From a cable despatch, which we print this morning, it will be learned that the general situation in Spain is greatly improved. On Tuesday, in the lower House of the Cortes, Sefior Zorrilla, the President of the Cabinet Council, declared that it was the purpose of the government to introduce reforms in the muncipal law of Porto Rico providing for the nbolition of slavery on that island. He also Bnnounced that the Carlist insurrection had ‘dwindled down to an affair of but little im- portance, that the disloyal demonstrations of the federalists had ended, and that order was now assured throughout the country. The mews was cheering to the members of the Cortes, and the vote of the House must have peen as cheering to the government, for a res- olution was adopted by 182 against 6, express- ing satisfaction with the declaration of the Minister. We are glad to know that Spain is doing so well, but what about muncipal reform snd the abolition of slavery in Cuba? ‘Tar Lonpon Telegraph observes: —‘‘Seldom can the President of the United States com- municate to the Senate a message so full of peace, 80 free from any tone of apprehen- sion, so devoid of any phrase from which calumny itself could draw a menace.’’ It forebodes, however, that our haleyon calm cannot long last, and sees danger from our large Irish vote, the disposition of our Irish- American citizeus to foment a quarrel with England and avenge upon her all the wrongs of Ircland from Strongbow's days down to Peel's. After advising President Grant to re- form the civil serv protection the ar after all, his hands are ti improvement it must ¢ themselves, but if we d throw into the work of administrative reform a fraction of the energy we displayed in the civil war our “‘gov- 8 by saying that, If we have any from the people nd put an end to tarilf | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. Success of Our Commissioner's Tour in | war to tho knife, is not their stand heroic? Cuba—The Revolution—A Terrible War that Should Be Ended. The gratifying news that tho mission of Mr. Henderson to the Island of Cuba has been successful is given full confirmation in the pages of this day's Heraup, The story of his exciting adventures and triumphs in accom- plishing his perilous task is told at length from his departure to his return, The difii- culties which beset him and the manner in which he met and vanquished them are best learned from his own narrative. The Spanish authorities, although casting him into prison at first, when once convinced of the bona fide character of his mission, extended to him every facility for accomplishing his purpose, and we thank them for this later marked courtesy to our representative. When once within the Cuban lines he found that the name of the independent American journal ho represented caused complete confidence to be placed in him, and induced the rebels to conduct him before the master spirit of the revolution, Presi- dent Carlos Manuel Cespedes. He was thus enabled to reach all. classes on both sides, from, the Spanish Captain General to the lowest camp follower, and from the Cuban Commander-in- Chief to the full-blooded negro soldier who fought in the ranks under his command. This much accomplished, and treated with the high impartiality of an honorable neutral, is what we lay before our readers as the latest instance of our endeavors for universal light. ‘When the Henaxp, some three weeks since, received a brief despatch from Mr. Hender- son, dated at Cape Haytien, announcing his departure from Cuba, under, apparently, the threats of the Spanish volunteers, we natu- rally concluded that he had abandoned his post through fear of his life. We could not, from the information then in our hands, be aware of any other reason. Mr. Henderson, however, now states that’ as his despatches, even that from Cape Haytien, passed through Havana, and hence through Spanish hands, he did not deem it prudent to state the full measure of his success before his return. This ho hastened as much as the slow mode of communication in the West India islands would permit, The Heraup, therefore, now takes the opportifhity of applauding its suc- cessful envoy as warmly as it felt itself com- pelled to animadvort upon what it deemed three weeks ago a dereliction on his part. In doing so the Heratp does simple justice ; but the action marks a phase in independent jour- nalism which might, unexplained, escapo the attention it deserves. An independent news- paper, which owns no controlling ties outside of its legitimate business, like an independent nation that acknowledges no exoteric power as its master, is as free to select its agents as the latter is its public servants. The policy of each and its application belong to itself. As failure to perform a deputed duty or malfeas- ance in office is treated by the nation, so in the perfect newspaper, with its far-reaching requirements, must similar lapses or trans- gressions be visited upon those guilty of either. What the free government owes to the peoplo the independent paper owos fo the pub- lic—a wider term still. There should bo no official whitewashing in the ono or tho other. On the othor hand, the gekuowledg- ment of iucriforious Service &hd {ts adequate reward are incumbent on both. The extreme dclica¢y of the undertaking, in view of all the facts, cannot be over-estimated. Tho war which has raged for over four years in Cuba finds those engaged in it to-day strug- gling ineffectually for an ond in all the force of inflamed passions. Suspicion, jealousy, blood-thirstiness, mercilessness and hate seemed all bound writhingly together in the destiny of Cuba, like a monstrous Laocoon, by tho serpents of selfishness and desperation. The faint evidence of it may be felt at this dis- tanco in the impotent rage of one side or the other at utterances which a free press may make to a free people; but if it needs a stronger instance scarce a month old, let the reader follow our commissioner in his description of the horrors of the battle- field of Viamones. It was not a large battle, such as arrests the attention of history, with its great casualties and consequences, like Marathon, Cannm, Sadowa or Appomattox Court House, It was at best a skirmish, an outpost fight, a volley, a retreat, a pursuit by comparatively a handful on either side; but it shows a greater intensity of ferocity and re- finement of savagery than cither of those it battles we have mentioned, with all Their roll of dond. The task of passing be- tween two atch lines of foesand calmly weigh- ing the qualities, the endurapee pnd the means of cach will be easily understood. ~ The mist of doubt which hung over this struggle “at our doors’ will in great measure be dissipated by the results of our commis- sioner’s tour of inspection. The battlefield proper may be said to lie in the Central and Oriental Departments. In the work of quell- ing the rebellion Spain has engaged a num- ber of soldiers of all arms, varying between forty and fifty thousand men. After careful computation and personal observation our commissioner p!aces the Cuban forces at twelve thousand active armed insurgents. Some idea of the difficulty in gauging this force on hearsay alone will be formed when various opinions are collated. Captain General Ceballos placed them at twenty-five hundred, General Fajardo at six thousand, General Riguelme at eight to twelve thousand, and President Cespedes at twelve thousand. The mournful feature of this prolonged struggle will be gathered in the significant words, ‘No prisoners taken on either side.” It is Var victis worked out in the nineteenth century. It means the mas- sacre of sick and wounded prisoners, with affrighting barbarities at which Brennus, if ho lived to-day, would blush. But there is another side to this sanguinary war which claims attention, Tho most untu- tored being can find a reason for the Span- iards in their conduct of it, namely, the tenacity with which a haughty people cling to their conquest—at once a source of vanity and wealth, What, it will then be asked, is it that sustains these twelve thousand men in the agony of the situation they have voluntarily chosen for themselves? They have lost all, | relinquished all but life, honor aud a gallant | forlorn hope in what they call tho cause of “Cuba Libre.” They may be ragged, city- loss, purseless; but even the contempt of their enemies, if they sneer at their poverty and ridi- cule their courage, cannot doubt their tenacity. The hope of ultimate success may be faint in spite of the cheery heart that brings it to the lips, but it is always plain that this hope is balanced by the dismal prospect of annihila- tion, no matter how long delayed. Eng- lishmen and Frenchmen alike revere the stern heroism of Cambronne at Waterloo, who scorned surrender when tho doomed Empiro was being whirled away in tho smoke of the great fray already lost. Is Cespedes, in his lair among the Cuban wilds, scorning all offer of surrender from the Spaniards, less noble a figure? The Spaniards will greet the query with jeers, but the question is not for their decision. * icp a3 The truth, according to our present light, appears to be that the Cubans cannot, unaided, triumph in their battle for independence. It is much more certain that Spain, with its pres- ent forces and means, cannot name any definite period within a score of years at which the rebellion will be finally and completely crushed and the beautiful island restored throughout its length and breadth to peace and industry, It, in fine, presents the hor- rible picture of a brutalized conflict without prospect of cessation. Humanity—we shall not speak of right or justice—demands that some means should be taken to stop it. It is not the question of slavery, of Monroe doc- trine “or any other abstraction, but that human life and a people's industry are being frittered and butchered away in a ceaseless and bloody warfare. The United States, government and people, have trifled with the question too long. There may have been some excuse, heretofore, of want of light. It is not now a battle altogether behind a cloud. Tho Henatp has done something toward bringing its features vividly before the world. Now we say to the government and people, Coquet no longer with the atrocity, for such it is, Friendly utterances to the Cubans in a President's Message that draw forth ire at Havana ang Madrid, but which are hollow as ® whisper in a dead man’s ear when sifted to find what practical help they mean for Cuba, do nothing but mischief. The bubble sympathy which American citi- zens shout for ‘free Cuba’’ is just as mean- ingless. If the pro-Spanish, the merely neutral or the pro-Cuban policy is to prevail, ‘let it, whichever it may be, bo carried out grimly and consistently. A fair, disfigured land and thousands of valuable lives are the price which the policy of insincerity costs. If Cuba is unworthy of freedom, aid Spain to stamp the rebels out; if Spain is unworthy of assistance and Cuba deserve it not, let no tongue hold outa promise to tho ear only the more cruelly to break it to the hope. Spain in either case would soon, wo believe, make an effort to settle the question. If, on the contrary, Cuba deserves her free- dom, let that fact be proclaimed by the United States authoritatively, and Spain must let her go. It is & grave question, and one only to be met in the face. “Wa: gton Affairs, In the Senate yesterday Mr. Pomeroy, of Kansas, Chaizman on Publie Lands, reported bael the Dill for the reliof of settlers’on the Cherokee lands, with amendments, and the subject was discussed till the expiration of the morning hour. Thero is doubiiess a. riclt plum for the lobby covered up in this bill; but it will, perhaps, be brought to the light before the close of the discussion. = The formal announcement of the death of the late Senator Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, was then made, and after eulogics froma number of Senators upon the life, character ‘and public services of the deceased, the Senate adjourned, Mr. Cox, of New York, in the House of Representatives, presented a petition from the New York and West Indies Steamship Company for a yearly subsidy of $100,000, for a line to Hayti, for carrying the mails, you understand, at the rate, say, of ten dollars per letter, re- gardless of size, color or previous condition. And why not? If we subsidize one steamship line, or two, or three, or half a dozen, shall wo stop there? Fair play says you must keep it going. Has not one company just as good a claim for a subsidy as another? Yes; of course. Then the line from New York to the island and Republic of Hayti is all right in asking for its subsidy, and so would be the line to Staten Island, Coney Island or any other island. Let them all come in, The House passed a bill for an examination into the condition of the savings banks of the District of Columbia. Reports have been in circulation that the Freedman’s Savings Bank of Washington is sporting too many Califor- nia diamonds, and the indignant President asks this investigation, There was in Wash- ington, many years ago, an honest African whose place of business bore this modest in- scription, ‘Moses Black, White and Yellow Washer;'’ but we hope that his services will not be required to make a clean exhibit of this Freedman’s Savings Bank, for we want no white or yellow washing of this institution, whatever may be done with the Crédit Mo- bilier. Rumor has it that in the matter of a new appointment for the Chicago Post Office the President, in order to oblige General Logan, has departed from the civil service rules of his Philadelphia appointment, We hope not, and that it will appear in the sequel that if Gen- eral Logan’s favorite has secured the prize it is because of his superior qualifications. It will never do to snub General Cameron one day, in carrying out this civil service reform, and, in the next case, to snub the examining board of schoolmasters in order to oblige Benson, or Logan. ee ie Toe Lovina Mupvie.—Tho fusionists have not yet given up the fight. The citizens’ delegation arrived in Washington last night with their memorial to Congress ; we also pub- lish elsewhere a special despatch from New Orleans, giving a card of the fusionists, ad. dressed to the public, refuting the assertions of Attorney General Williams. Tux Lonpon Zimes expects to find in Presi- dent Grant’s communications to Congress since his second election, and after the thor- ough education he has acquired by years of experience in military and civic command, ‘‘a confidence vf authority, 9 placidity of assured success, @ disregard of minor motives which would not be found in the utterances of a man still striving for office and calculating how his words would affect the thousand wire-pullers of the country." It finds these characteris- ernment would be almost without a rival in purity and vigor,” Is it not heroism and patriotism ? Defiled as their fair namo may be by the exigencies of a tics in the President's recent Message and congratulates tho Republic thercom, The Credit Mobilicr and (ue Congres | Could it not havo saved nearly two millions sional Investigation... “Where there is much smoke there is cer- tain to be some fire’” is an old proverb, nud its truthfulness is generally substantiated by\tho resulta. The flutter among Congressmen over the Crédit Mobilier investigation would scarcely have been so great if no such thing as “placing’’ stock had ever been heard of in the House of Representatives, and if every member who has persistently voted in favor of the Union Pacific Railroad schemes had done so in entire ignorance of Oakes Ames, Alley, McComb and the other worthies of the lobby. The investigation itself could never be ex- pected to amount to much ; its secret sessions and its tenderness towards witnesses might have been relied upon to bring forth a yery modest and harmless report ; yet we find Rep- resentatives fuming and foaming, denying and denouncing, and doing all manner of unnecessary things to prove their indignation at the charges brought against their honorable body in connection with this profitable job. These members are probably injured imnocents, as spdtless as the driven snow and as pure as a vestal virgin ; but we would suggest to them that they dam- age their case by exhibitions of feeling, and that it would be wise to leave the investigating committee to drag its slow length along under the grave perplexity of its venerable chairman, and through the weary legal tediousness of Messrs. Black and Cushing. We regard it as especially impolitic to abuse the patient and note-taking McComb, whose little pencillings have led to the existing slander. No sensible man would expect to find a saint in the person of a lobbyist mixed up with attempts to bribe the national Legislature; but when we aro told on the floor of Congress that McComb is an adept at corruption; that he has had ‘fraudulent transactions’ with the War De- partment and with different railroad compa- nies; that he once ‘bought the whole Legis- lature of Louisiana for eighty thousand dol- lars'’—a high price for such a body, by the way—the thought occurs to us that he is just the man who would be likely to purchase Con- gressmen, ‘and we are led to wonder how our Representatives at Washington could have had any intimacy with such a character. The tribulations of the investigating com- mittee are not less than those of the sus- pected members of the House. They are confused, bewildered, badgered by the lawyers. With Judge Black on one side, with his in- quisitorial tongue, and Caleb Cushing on the other, with his head-splitting legal points, Judge Poland and his associates are fairly distraught. If they were permitted to ask questions in their own way and to accept the answers of witne@es at their own estimation of their worth, it would be all plain sailing and smooth water. But the lawyers bring storm and tempest into the committee room, and the sea of investigation is lashed into fury. Judge Poland can discover no hope of reaching a safe port unless he can cast the legal Jonahs overboard. The attempt has been made to cut the glaws—or the tongues— of Messrs. Black and Cushing, and it may Sidceed ; but we incline to the opinion expressed by the chairman of the com- mittec, that between them they may extend the investigation to the length of a Senatorial term. The perseverance of the Washington correspondents is another source of trouble to the committee, The sessions arg secret; yet the Hzrap pub- lishes day after day a full and graphic account of the proceedings iuside the ‘closed doors,” and the kindly efforts of the conitiltee to suffer nothing but their carefully prepared report to reach the public eye are cruelly defeated. The examination of witnessess, the squabbles of counsel, the perplexity of the committeemen, aye all set forth, and it seems probable that all the facts that may be de- veloped, however damaging they may be, will be given to the people by the press de- spite the injunction of secrecy imposed upon every person connected with the investigation. Under the circumstances we believe the com- mittee would save themselves much unneces- sary annoyance, and the House of Represent- atives much probably unfounded suspicion, if they would open their sessions to the public. The people are the parties really interested in the honesty and integrity of their Congress- men, and there is no good reason why they should not be allowed to hear the whole evi- dence, instead of being put off with the final conclusions of s Congressional committee, Secretary Boutwell and Jay Cooke Before the Committee of Ways and Mcans. ‘What a happy accord there is between Sec- retary Boutwell and Mr. Jay Cooke on finan- cial matters and on the debt-funding question ! They agree exactly. Both have been before the Committee of Ways and Means to give their views on the funding loan scheme. Mr. Boutwell spoke in admiration of his syndicate plan of funding the debt or making a loan for that purpose, and of the successful negotia- tion last year to place the two hundred mil- lions of the debt. He considered the plan the best that could be devised. Mr. Cooke was of the same opinion, and while he said he had little to add to the Secretary's statement he was satisfied the conversion of the debt into the new bonds, according to Mr. Boutwell’s scheme, could be effected without the slightest monetary or commercial disturbances. This mutual admiration and endorsement came very naturally from gentlemen who are deeply interested in the funding scheme. No doubt Mr. McCulloch would have given precisely the same opinion or evidence to the Commit- tee of Ways and Means. ‘The ground we have taken all along is that the large commissions and surrendering three months’ interest on the bonds to the Syndicate were unnecessary. Tho Treasury Department could have done all the business directly or indirectly through its own agents without pay- ing so dearly for it and without giving away three months’ interest on the bonds, It was simply a stupendous job for the benefit of the Treasury Ring. The effort to put the best face on this job, and to make it appear that the government has been the gainer by the one per cent interest saved in the conversion of two hundred millions of sixes into fives, with- out stating what the total cost was, is only special pleading in order to induce Congress to employ the Syndicate again, But the ques- tion recurs, Could not the government directly or through its own agents have made the loan, ag it is called, and funded the two hundred millions iyst as well without the Syndicate? which the Syndicate pocketed? We think it could. We aro opposed, therefore, to per- petuating and enlarging this job. Suppose a thousand millions of the debt be given to the Syndicate for conversion, and three months’ interest be. allowed on that amount, as in the case of the conversion by the Syndicate of that portion of the debt already placed, the profit would be fifteen millions, exclusive of com- missions. If one per cont commission should be allowed there would be a profit of ten mil- lions more, or if a half per cent only be allowed the commission would amount to five millions. It must be remembered that the Syndicate furnishes no capital. It is simply an agency, and these enormous profits are only for services, which, as was said before, the Treasury Department could perform itself. We hope Congress will not give its sanction to this stupendous raid upon the Treasury which the Ring is so intent upon making. How Can We Get a Good City Gov- ofmment t There is a great amount of humbug about Political reform. Individuals who want office, organs that live upon the success of their party supporters, parties out of power and anxious to be in power, are, one and all, at all times, on all occasions, prepared to denounce the corruptions of their political opponents and to avow their own devotion to the cause of honest government. Occasionally their efforta are productive of good, as opposition generally is, by exposing misconduct and by bringing about a change of rulers and a breaking up of old combinations. But their object is a selfish one, and their professions seldom hold good after their accession to power. General Dix, the Governor-elect of the State of New York, is not a reformer of this type. As a politician he is independent of all parties, and he accepted a nomination for the honorable position. to which he has been elected with o sincere desire to benefit the State by his services. When he declares that he considers the verdict givon by the people in his favor to have been a verdict “against the corrupt and selfish management of political cliques, a condemna- tion of extravagance, fraud, malfeasance in office and public plunder, and a declaration in favor of retrenchment in expenditure, a strict accountability in executive departments, and a purification of the halls of legislation, the prolific sources of abuse,"’ wemay be assured that he will do all in his power to enforce the judgment of the Court. But the aspiring politicians who interpret the words of Gover- nor Dix to mean that he will favor the stupid policy of a non-partisan government—a fraudu- lent pretence, which means simply a government composed of the strongest partisans of both political orgaizations in equal doses—will find their hopes deceptive. Gencral Dix, both as asoldier anda statesman, knows the impor- tance of harmony and hearty co-operation in an army and in an administration, and will not be likely to fullinto the error of mixed commissions, squabbling officials and divided responsibility, Because the people care nothing for a man's political opinions so long as he makes a eapa- ble, honest and efficient public officer, tho impression has prevailed that a municipal government, to be satisfactory to the citizens, must be constructed of alternate layers of re- ublicans, liberals and democrats. e idea Pe eg hee gr Rem sere re gore” is simply absurd. The people demand. the appointment of good and faithful officers, and sre indifferent whether they are all republi- cans, all democrats, or divided in their politi- cal opinions. If greater harmony, more effi- ciency and closer tesponsibility can be secured in the New York city government by placing the several departments in the hands of repub- licans in political accord with the federal, State and municipal heads, provided the ap- pointees are capable and unexceptionable men, the people will be quite contented to see this ‘‘partisan’’ policy, as it is miscalled, thoroughly carried out. Of course an Executive or a Legistature desirous of faithfully discharging a trust would not be guided by political considera- tions alone in selecting municipal officers or in framing nounicipal laws; but it would be the reverse of “independence of politics’ if either should be required to keep their politi- cal ledgers nicely balanced, and to make the opposition columns foot up exactly the same. At the present moment the city affairs are in a confused and unsatisfactory state, by reason of a want of harmony among the heads of departments. Some of our officials appear more anxious to find’ fault with other officers than to attend to the proper discharge of their own duties. The daily papers are constantly troubled with long official controversies: in which the people have no interest, The Finance Department is occupied in writing newspaper articles about some half dozen laborers in the Public Works Department, who are said to have drawn a few dollars on a pay roll under false names, and forgets that the banks have been using the city deposits for their own benefit, and that the city has been defrauded out of two hundred and twenty thousand dollars by the transaction. The squabbles and jealousies between the depart- ments have proved seriously detrimental to the progress and prosperity of the city, and have led to unnecessary litigation at the ex- pense of the taxpayers and to the enrichment of favored lawyers. This condition of affairs must cease before we can hope to have an effi- cient government inthe metropolis; and if the instalment of capable and honest repub- licans in every office under the municipality can effect a reform, the sooner the change is made the better. General Dix understands this, and while he is certain to appoint none but competent and faithful men to office, and to favor no policy that will be likely to hand over the city to any corrupt political clique, he will not be influenced by the absurd pre- tence that a ‘non-partisan’ government is one composed wholly of partisans, served up like a dish of sandwiches. A Suicut Mistarz.—In 9 long and able editorial on the death of Mr. Groeley, that usually well-informed paper, the London Tele qraph, of the 2d inst, remarks that ‘on Wednesday noxt, had Mr. Greeley been elected, he would have been formally installed President by the vote of Congress at Washing- ton.”’ A glance at the constitution of the United States, which probably has a place in the library of the Telegraph, might have pre- vented the inaccuracy of placing our Presiden- tial inauguration on the 4th of December instead gf threo mouths later, “Thou Shalt Not 1 Xt. Cities in flames, hotels burned, with fright~ ful loss of life; lastly, murders, foul end most unnatural! We boast of civilizat‘on, we prate of justice, we build gorgeous chi 'rchea in which to worship the Creator one dav in soven, and demonstrate our sincerity ‘by breaking His decalogue the remaining six. ‘We have our physical epidentics of cholera, of smallpox, of typhoid fever; why not our moral epidemics of violating all thé Command- ments, in order to discover which.sin has the most flavor, and is, consequently, = most enjoyable? On the whole, we con that murder—pre-eminently cold-bdooded mur- der—is that for which we most hanker, for which we are gifted by nature, the sin which our laws are especially designed to- cover witle the mantle of charitable forgiveness, Having fastened our affections on the pet Command-, ment we desire to defy, we display our‘inge- nuity by inventing various sauces piquant. with which to flavor this defiance, There are fashions in the cutting of clothes; why not fashions in the cutting of throats? De Quincy should be alive to-day to paint the beauties of ‘murder considered'as ono of the finearts ;"’ should have stood on Monday night within the shadow of Liberty street and’ wit- nessed how little lower than the angels is man! It is a charming spectacle, ye law- abiding citizens of America’s greatest city # ‘Will ye gaze as we turn on the calcium light which alone was needed to make the bloody deed as dramatic a sensation as ever the modern playwright dared to. dream? Two men meet by accident, men who had formerly been partners in the disreputable business of lottery dealing and had quarrelled themselves into dissolution, each taking with him his ill- gotten gains, each living on the fat and the folly of the land. They meet, indulge in language befitting their honorable ealling, and finally the man Simmons calls the man Duryea “a thief.’’ . “Don’t you call me a thief,’ mutters Dur- yea, swearing. “I will call you a thief,’’ says Simmons, with an obscene oath. Duryea strikes Simmons. They clinch and roll into the gutter. Simmons, the more pow- erful man, seems to have the advantage, and Duryea tries in vain to free himself from the grasp of his adversary. “G@— d— you!" he exclaims, “let me up!’ “You'll die first,”’ replies Simmons, giving him a tremendous blow. The blood gushes from Duryea’s eyes and nose and trickles down his cheeks. ‘For mercy's sake, let me up |’ he cries. “Go to h——!” Simmons answers, with another blow. The blood covers Duryea’a face and streams over his collar and his shirt as he again cries, “For mercy’s sake, don’t kill me!”’ % “Kill you !"’ Simmons exclaims, in a fearful paroxysm of rage, “I'd kill you a dozen times if I could.’’ Duryea succeeds in raising himself a little, He seizes Simmons by the throat and attempts to choke him. Simmons gasps for breath. His face is livid, and it seems as if Duryea were to have the best of it after all, He tries to free his neck, but cannot. ay ake you!” he gasped, ‘I'll kill you!’ . Bs tafe 7 Putting his hand into his pocket he draws forth gknife, It flashes in the air, and in the next moment is buried in Duryea’s neck. “Oh! oh!’’ Duryea cries as his head sinks back, bathed in blood. Again the knife flashes in the air; again if descends; the arteries behind the car have been cut; another stab, and the writhing Dur- yea is dead, “By J—, he’s dead !’’ Simmons remarks, coolly, as he draws the reeking knife out of the dead man’s neck, and looking at it com- placently, mutters, “By G——, I thought I'd do it once, and I’m glad I’ve done it now !"” When all is over to the satisfaction of the bys standers, who have given their moral supporf to the performance by never raising a hand in defence of the murdered, and when Duryea is quite dead, a policeman appears and demands the knife. “All right {” answers the hero of the fray, “you can have it now. I don’t want it any more.’’ The hero injures his ankle; but what of that? Are there not carts with which to convey his brave persom to the police sta. tion, and are there not cigars—the very best— for him to smoke after he gots there? Does he not know that murder is: made easy and justice is “played out?’’ He cootly sends fos @ surgeon, desiring him to ‘pull away.” He turns round to survey the corpse as it passes by, without tremor in his face. Why should there be? Does not Simmons’ know that courts and: juries aro on his side? What matters it if journals protest and womem shudder for the lives of husbands pursuing the very dangerous occupation of minding their own business, in the region of a street well named Liberty? Ay, our hero can even afford to lose his temper at the delay in fur- nishing him with an ambulance in which ta pursue his triumphant way to the hos- ee ears pital “When is that ambulance going to come? It's very cruel keeping ma here. My foot is very bad.’ Surely the man who hacks his fellow to pieces has a right to protest sgainst neglect of a lame:foot, has a right to be surrounded by confidential friends to whom he communicates in whispers with a view probably of buying up whatever of law is remaining in this land of the free. We leave our hero comfortably housed, with all the delicacies of the season about his romantic bedside, with, now that blood has been shed, a police officer on guard night and day. Sup- pose a police officer had been on guard in Lib- erty street, what then? Why, then, murder might not have been possible, and we could not have sat down to Tuesday's breakfast with a fitting relish. So we are content, and wa ask public opinion to agree with us in think. ing that never have we had = more reason to be proud of humanity, whether in the shape of murderer, murdered, spectators or absent policemen ; that nover have wo been so entortained as by this most playful encounter ; that never were the streets, by day and night, 50 suggestive of romantia adventure; that never did the sight of glit- tering steel so theill us with ploasing thoughts of our approaching doom. We are cheerfully making our wills, and, as just compensation for benefits conferred, leave everything to the chivalric souls burning to help us on the road to heaven, knowing that they will gladly pay for ws gno debt—that of nature, Let ua