The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1873, Page 8

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TOMY, No. 618 Broad- DR, KAHN'S MUSEUM, Ni Anp AR’ New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1873, = 68 Broadway.—Scimnce ADRUPLE THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE NECESSITY OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A CHI USTICE! FURTHER DELAY IS DANGEROUS”—LEADER—EIGHTA PaGE. MADRID REPORTS OF GREAT SLAUGHTER OF CARLISTS IN THE NORTH OF SPAIN! THE SIEGE OF CARTAGENA! THE NE! ERALISSIMO! A REVOLT iN WaJORCA- NINTH PAGE. THE PERSIAN SHAH IMMURES, AIS GRAND VIZIER—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— NintH Pack. BRITISH EMIGRANTS TO BRAZIL RETORNING TO THEIR NATIVE LAND! BITTER COM- PLAINTS AGAINST THE BRAZILLANS— NINTH PAGE. THE RECENT CONFLAGRATION IN HAVANA, CUBA! FULL SPECIAL ACCOUNT OF THB SCENES AND THE LOSSES—Firra PAGE. STORM CALAMITY ON LAKE MICHIGAN! THE IRONSIDES SUNK! THE LIsT OF LOST AND SAVED—NinTH PaGE. THE YELLOW FEVER DECIMATING STHREVE- PORT, LA.! MEMPHIS ALARMED—TWELFTH Pace. PHILADELPHIA MOVING FOR THE SUPPRES SION OF THE DETESTABLE TRAFFIC IN ITALIAN CHILDREN! LARGE NUMBERS OF PADRONES ARRESTED—FirTH PAGE. JUSTICE SWAYNE IN HIGH FAVOR WITH THE TENNESSEE BAR FOR THE VACANT CHIEF JUSTICESHIP! CONKLING A PAR TISAN! THE MERITS OF MR. EVARTS, CALEB CUSHING AND OTHERS CONSID- ERED—SIXxTH PaGE. ANDREW JOHNSON’S OPINIONS UPON THE QUESTION OF CHSARISM! THE ROCKS UPON WHICH THE UNION SHIP MAY STRAND! GRANT'S AMBITION, AND HOW THE PEOPLE CAN CURB [T—SixtH Page. SCIENTIFIC AND LEGAL THEORIES AS 10 THE DEATH OF CHARLES G. KELSEY! DOUBTS EXPRESSED AS TO IDENTITY! STARTLING ANALYSES—THE ADVANCE OF METHOD- ISM—THIRTEENTH PAGE. SPALN’S DISHONORED NAVY AT CARTAGENA! HER BEST WAR SHIPS PRISONERS UNDER BRITISH COLORS! THE FALLEN CITIES AND VANISHING MARTIALISM! SPIRITUALISM IN THE CORTES~SixtHt PaGE. THE RIOTS IN LEIPSIC! MOBS OF SOCIALISTS TEARING UP PAVEMENTS AND DESTROY- ING PRIVATE PROPERTY! EFFORTS TO DEMORALIZE THE SOLDIERY—SIXTH PAGE. THE UNITED STATES VERSUS THE OREDIT 4 MOBILIER! THE GREAT INIQUITY BEING EXPOSED IN THE CIRCUIT COURT AT NEW HAVE JONN.—SEVENTH PAGE, NEW DOMINION INQUIRY INTO THE CANADIAN PACIFIC MOBILIER! DEBARRING THE “YANKS"—SEVENTH PAGE, THE “CONQUERING HEROES” OF THE MEXL CAN WAR © BE E THE ANNIVER- SARY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO IN GRAND STYLE —Teyra PaoR. A SHOCKING MURDER! THE KULLING OF PATRICK DONNELLY TeNnTH Pacs. A LIFE INSURANCE FAILURE! MUTUAL COMPANY AT HYDE PARK— THE RCLECTIC PLACED IN THE HANDS OF A RECKIVER—AQUATIC STRUG- GLES—TeNTH Pace. By special correspondence from Havana we have a com- plete report of the origin, progress and conse- quences of the great fire which occurred just lately in the Plaza del Vapor, in that city. It | was a terrible disaster, involving, as will be seen from our despatch, the loss of a number of lives and the destruction of a large amount of property. The scene at mid- night was frightful in the extreme, on explosion of gunpowder adding to the terror which was felt by a popula- tion already suffering in consequence of the advance of the flames and a want of water. Measures looking to the relief of the afflicted families were adopted with promptitude. It ‘was suspected that the fire was the work of in- cendiaries, but it does not appear that the sus- picion can be supported by uroof. NEW YORK HERALD, SHS Sale SERIA 1 TUESDAY, SHPTEMBER 16, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Necessity of the Appointment of @ | necessary to recall some of these which would Chief Justice—Further Delay is Dan. gerous. The nomination for Chief Justice of the United States is a matter too important to the country and to the liberties of the American people to be longer neglected by the Presi- dent. Chief Justice Chase has been dead for months. The vacancy created by his death | has already existed too longa time. Delays are unnecessary always, and in matters of such supreme importance they are only too likely to be dangerous. The Supreme Court is above the Executive, above the legislative branches of the government, for it alone has power to interpret the laws which Congress enacts and which the President is required to execute. It is even above the law when the law does violence tothe constitution, That such a court, so august in ils functions, ‘so great in its responsibilities and so all-powerful in its judgments, should be without » head for a longer time than is required to fill the vacancy with proper cireumspection and con- sideration, seems at bestto be inexcusable fri- volity—a playing, upon one pretext or another, with the highest and noblest office which it can fall to the lot of a President to fill. It is not an office to be filled upon any pretext whatever, nor is it one which any President can offer as a political reward or a partisan bribe. Indeed, it cannot be regarded as in the President's gift. Itis not his to bestow from personal considerations; but when it is to be filled, the appointment of a Chief Justice is a solemn duty, to be performed with the greatest discretion and the highest wis- dom and from the purest motives. This duty for weeks and months ought to have been pressing upon the President’s conscience day and night. The Chief Justice should be now in his seat, confirmed by a higher power than the Senate of the United States—tho universal sentiment of the country. Any further postponement can only be meant to await the result of State elections, so as to secure the nomination of Mr. Conkling, Mr. Fre- linghuysen or some other Senatorial favorite, without endangering a seat in the Senate. The highest office in the government must not thus be allowed to sorve the exigencies of party; it must not be made an element of success in the political schemes of the Presi- dent or his partisans, and the people will be quick to understand that in leavirlg the Judicial Department without head upon o pretext and as a bribe they witness a flagrant exhibition of Cxsarism. When a people tamely allow their ruler8 to trifle with justice there is an end to liberty controlled by law. English liberty was not really menaced until Charles II. made Sir George Jeffreys Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. The character of that infamous. Judge is only too well known, for he made the administration of justice the expression of bigotry and hatred and re- yenge. Macaulay’s picture of him will last while literature lasts. ‘That man,’’ said the King, ‘‘has no learning, no sense, no manners, and more impudence than ten carted street walkers.’’ This man was appointed to his high office for political reasons; but while Charles IL selected him especially to destroy he whig party, James IL. used him as the in- strument of a thousand crimes. Jeffreys’ first exploit was the judicial murder of Algernon Sidney. But under James he was even more useful than as a murderer—useful as he was in this respect—for his first service to the new King was to enable the government to col- lect the customs without the authority of law, except such as he could give. He pre- sided at the trial of Oates and Baxter. After Monmouth’s failure he made what the King flippantly called ‘the Chief Justice's cam- paign in the West.’ In that campaign his first act was to murder Alice Lisle, a lady of rank, who had innocently secreted two of the rebels. Then followed the bloody Assizes, and the work of browbeating and of blood—for which he was rewarded by being made Lord Chancellor of England—went on till James was driven from the throne. It will be the first impulse of every man to cry out that it is impossible this hideous mon- ster should be reproduced in a Chief Justice of the United States. His ferocity, perhaps, is impossible of reproduction, but not his traculence or his power for evil. But it isnot so much Jeffreys’ enormities that we are be- wailing now as the wickedness of Charles IL in appointing him Chief Justice because of his usefulness, and of James IL, in using him, creating him a peer of the realm and finally elevating him to be Lord Chancellor of England, Political reasons alone controlled them in making him their instrument in controlling liberty and the law. The great crime was their crime, and it will be as much @ criminal sur- render of this supreme station in this country to subordinate it to considerations of politics as was the making of Jeffreys Chief Justice of the King’s Bench and Lord Chancellor. Then justice was wounded by the King; now the danger is that it will be stabbed by the President, however honest may be his motives or however pure his personal character. We want no bad men, no un- learned lawyers, no truculent judges on the Supreme Bench. Especially do we want no weak or wicked Chief Justice. A bad man, or even a fecble one, may do great harm in that position. The authority of Congress may be set aside by misinterpretations of the laws and the President clothed with powers he does not possess by a judge who can be made a tooL The constitution itself is not safe in the hands of a corrupt or weak man; and nothing can be more unsafe than to mould a politician into a judge. Even Jeffreys was originally appointed only to destroy a party and take a single life. It was not expected that he would become the most infamous of partisan and judicial murderers. If we stoop to appoint a man Chief Justice of the United States for political reasons America may be as much disgraced as was England by her Chief Justice. Jeffreys was appointed because he was willing to become the political tool of big masters, and the appointment by the President of a mere politician for mere political reasons would be a8 heinous in every way as was Jeffreys’ appointment by the King. President Grant has now an opportunity to do himself great honor. He can rise above parties and partisanship in a matter where the disregard of these is honorable. The office of Chief Justice of the United States is vacant, and it is his immediate duty to fill the vacancy. Many cmiuent names present them. selves to him from which he can make a wise selection, Only a moment's refloction is be acceptable to the American people. Charles O'Conor is a lawyer of -profound learning, great experience and unimpeachable in- tegrity. Tho constitution would be safe under his rulings. Mr, Groesbeck, of Ohio, though often heard of in political circles, is, in reality, a statesman —a public man who does not desire public office. Judge Daly, of the Court of Common Pleas of this city, is among the most eminent men on the Bench and a lawyer of sound judgment. Apart from their legal learning, the personal purity of these men commends them for the office. Nota stain has ever blotted the repu- tation of any of them, and all that can be urged against them is that they are not met- bers of the republican party. This is nota party office, and party lines are not tobe con- sidered for a moment in the appoint- ment of a Chief Justice; but in the republican party there are many men as eminent for learning and integrity from whom the President can choose. We are not yet prepared to say that we have any special preference in the matter, and all we demand is that the new Chief Justice shall be in every way fitted to the high office and that he shal! be appointed immediately. The President can win honor by a wise and speedy appointment; he will only obtain reproach by further delay. There is no longer any room for pretexts. It will not do to urge that the Senate may not confirm the Presi- dent’s choice if the Chief Justice is nominated so long before the meeting of Congress. No Senate, however base, would dare to reject men like those we have named. The Presi- dent can seloct some other man whom the Senate would not dare to reject. We have already said that there isa higher power in the confirmation of a Chief Justice than the Senate. Ifthe people confirm, the President need have no fear; butif the people reject, the President will be disgraced in the appoint- ment and the Senate in the confirmation. The nation would be disgraced if a mere poli- tician were named at this critical junctare of our history for head of the Supreme Court of our land, and the President would be justly condemned by the honest voice of our whole people. Anxious as we are that the place shall be speedily filled, we are equally anxious that General Grant shall do honor to himself and his country in the performance of this duty. Spain—The Great Battle in the North— Contradictory Reports. General Moriones has been appointed Gen- eralissimo of tho armies of Spain. The report which was circulated during Sunday, alleging that the insurrectionists in the north had inflicted a severe defeat on the republican troops, is denied from Madrid. Spanish tele- grams claim, on the contrary, the obtainment of a very important victory by the goyern- ment forces, and state that a large force of insurgents was routed, with great slaughter, by a division of republicans inferior to it by some thousands in number. The Madrid offi- cials say, further, that the statement of the defeat of the national army was circu- lated purposely and falsely by the Carlists with the view of temporarily inflating the hopes of their adherents and sym- pathizers. The Reds at Cartagena pro- posed an alliance with the Carlists as a means of relieving themselves from the siege enforced against the city, the plan being that the royalists should attack the republican line in the rear, while the radicals made a sortie from the town. The project for such an incongruous amalgama- tion, revolutionists with Bourbonists, has deprived the Cartagena insurgents of a very large share of the public good will. How far we have got at the truth remains to be seen. It is quite clear that the government is re- solved to make a bold effort to meet the Car- lists on their own chosen ground and to drive thom, if possible, from their strong- holds. Time will soon tell whether the Re- public or Don Carlos or Don Alfonso is to win. A special correspondence from Spain, by mai!, enables us to report the current history of events to the 12th of August, particularly with respect to the naval imbroglio between the flag of Great Britain and that of the Republic of Spain in the matter of the cap- tured iron-clads. France After the Germans’ Departure, Now that the iron heel is removed {from the breast of France the opposing parties are expected, in some quarters, to fly at each other with dangerous vehemence. As yet no such expectations have been justified. The fact is that the causes which have pro- duced a hesitancy on tho part of the monarch- ical majority in the Assembly to go to ex- tremes were not, at any time, dependent on the presence of the Germans. On the over- throw of Thiers they would have proclaimed the monarchy within a month if they had had belief in their chances of success. It has become quite clear that the fusion is not a compromise between sections of the monarch- ists, as a bargain between the Comte de Paris and the Comte de Chambord. The former will find it as difficult to bring over his fol- lowers to the white flag of the Bourbons as Carl Schurz found it to brng his German admirers over to Horace Greeley. The Bonapartists feel that they have been made a catspaw by their error of aiding in the overthrow of Thiers. The Napoleons have made their great strokes by coming after the Republic. Never by aiding the establishment of the monarchy can they hope to bring themselves nearer to power. ‘The conviction is settling deep in the hearts of the monarchist leaders that every step for- ward they take beyond their present position will be a false one. They must call forth all the force of tyranny ar be prepared for a bloodly effacement of their rule. The men who are willing, with the history of the last ninety years before them, to take this risk are growing fewer and fewer. When Thiers aban- doned the monarchy he did so because he believed the monarchy impossible. De Broglie and Pasquier will come to this way of thinking in time, The republicans have only to be firm and watchful and to wait. They have been held in hand by their leaders wonderfully, and, despite the talk of fusion, their enemies conspire to give the future to the Republic, ‘Tne Riso Cornvprion 1x Newarm, 03 ex- posed by our correspondent, shows that the city authorities there are eopying in miniature the old Tammany Ring in this city. This special vice of municival vlundering seems to \ have seized a great many cities and towns, in imitation of New York, where it was on the most stupendous scale, and now one exposure is following another. The contagion took deep hold of the officials in the neighboring cities across thé Hudson—Jersey City and Newark. Let us hope these developments, made through the vigilance of the press chiefly, will havea good effect in purifying the atmosphere of official life everywhere. Therapeutics in Reade’s “Simpleton”—Fargeon’s “Len- don’s Heart.” That therapeutics should be introduced into fiction ought, perhaps, to surprise no one in this scientific age. Mr. Charles Reade has set the pleasing example, having a few years ago gently made obstetrics subservient to romance. He has now improved upon his first idea and compelled medicine and chirurgy to work his will. There are novelists who defend this course. They declare that Mr. Darwin has enlisted imagination on the side of science, and that the theories which proclaim man’s relationship to the ape are nothing more than the carrying out. of that eagerness for sensa- tion which is assumed to be the mainspring of the novelist’s motives. Whatever truth there may bein this retort we do not care now to consider. Mr. Reade deserves all the credit that is due for extracting human interest from the medicine chest and. making us fall in love with a heroine who wears corsets on the sly and uses violet powder surreptitiously in spite of the disapproval of her husband, who isa first class physician, and in face of a solemn promise to givo them up. Itis not every writer who could manu- facture a pair of stays and a powder puff into two interesting episodes, Mr. Reade has done so in his. strong, slashing manner—a manner that hacks right and left and is indifferent whether it makes the reader blush or turn pale. My. Reade is no mere pruner or polisher of sentences. if he wero a poet he would be a Walt Whitman, never an Alexander Pope. He isnot the rhetorician to die of a verb in idiomatic pain. He never loiters and lingers, like an English twilight, nor senti- mentalizes with Bulwerian grace. Instead of paring with a silver rait knife he chops with a hatchet or abscinds like a scalpel. His paragraphs are as brief as personals. In ‘‘A Simpleton,” his latest work, he interosts us, not because ho presents new types of charac- ter, but because he reproduces the old types with all the éreshngss and vitality which made them irresistible years ago. That they ‘can remain charming after s0 long a lapse of time is perhaps the best thing to be said in their praise. He uses all the same old tricks and artifices by which he has long been known, makes his eroines speak with ungrammatical incongruity when he would show us their impulsiveness, puts a whole-souled and healthy-bodied young wo- man in love with a heartless rake, and cannot resist the opportunity of letting us see how much he has read by raining upon us hetero- geneous bits of information gathered from a score of books. The difference between a first class literary artist and one not belonging to the first class has seldom been better illus- trated than in the manner in which a char- acter who is a physician is handled by George Eliot in “‘Middlemarch” and that in which a character representative of the same profes- sion is made use of in this latest work of Mr. Reade’s. The one writer has mastered her knowledge; the other could not prevent its mastering him. George Eliot has. assimilated; Mr. Reade has merely crammed. In the first mentioned writer the knowledge previously acquired has percolated through her intellect, has modified its fibre and tinctured its character. In the other it has lain merely on the surface, an- swering a temporary purpose and ready to float away when the fleeting occasion for its use shall have passed. And yet it is impossi- ble not to feel that there is carnest and lov- ing work in ‘‘A Simpleton.’’ You know that the wrist which propelled the pen in the com- position of that work beat with a warm and strong and rapid pulse, whose throbs were regulated by a heart big with human tender- ness and sympathies. There is a healthy but not vulgar animalism in some of his allusions to tight lacing, and we shall be gladif the relation he establishes between corsets and consciences produces its due effect in abolish- ing the one and enlightening the other. Very different is ‘“London’s Heart,’’ just completed by Mr. Fargeon, and one of the shabbiest’ and most meretricious novels by an author of good repute which we remember to have read for many a day. Mr. Fargeon showed so much power and sweetness in “Joshua Marvel,"’ such a yearning over undeserved human misery in ‘Blade o’ Grass,’’ that we were entitled to look forward to something yet more strong and touching from his hand. The present work contradicts all such expectations. Written in many parts in a style which may be characterized asa very weak imitation of Dickens when not at his best, it is commonplace and frivolous in its‘plot, morbid in its sympathies, faint and vague in its characterizations and slovenly in its rhetoric. It is so great a failure in every particular which marks the work of art that we fear Mr. Fargeon has yielded to the temp- tation presented to every young writer who makes one signal success. The magazines have got hold of him, and he cannot withstand the lure to write hurriedly and in flashy in- stalments to provide a sickly monthly supply. It is the yielding to a temptation like this which has irremediably ruined Miss Braddon and turned into the channel of flimsy volumi- nousness talent which might have otherwise placed her among the more powerful roman- cists of the day. Is Mr. Fargeon going to follow so lamentable an example? Tur Cerepnation Yesrerpay in this city of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the surrender of the city of Mexico to the United States army was successful in every respect and was worthy the metropolis. We are glad to record that the speeches delivered were in excellent taste. While the orators properly recalled the brilliant achievements of our troops in the contest with our sister Republic nothing was said that could be considered as offensive to our former focs. The orators of the occa- sion advocated the cultivation of a feeling of sympathy, and brotherly kindness toward Mexico and expressed o desire to see her overcome all her difficulties and prosper by the friendly side of the United States. That this feeling was indulged hy the gallant men Fiction — Charles‘ who stood “‘in the battle front’ is also a mat- | forces upon the city, in emall matters as fy ter for congratulation. We have no quarrel | great matters, is only one of the many reasona with Mexico and have no desire to see one stirred up. The New Government of the District of Columbia—Is it Coosarism * The appointment of Alexander R. Shep- herd, Vice President of the Board of Public Works and practical director of its operations, as Governor of the District of Columbia, in place of Henry D. Cooke, resigned, has, it appears, -created great excitement and no small degree of indignation among the tax- payers of Washington. We are informed that in the popular expression of this indig- nation no ono is censured but the President, and that the question is asked on every side, “Is it his contempt of public opinion, or his ignorance of the sentiment of the people, or is it his stolid indifference that nerves him to such action?” It further appears from the same correspondent that the retirement of Cooke and the appointment of Shepherd to the responsible office in question is but the beginning of a scheme to foist on the general government the entire indebtedness of the District of Colunibia, and to make the United States responsible for not less thaw twenty millions of indebtedness contracted by the Territorial government of the District, now less than three years in existence; and that all this is to bedone pecause the District is hopelessly sunk in debt and the national gov- ernment alone can save it. ‘The Washington taxpayers, however, being ignorant of any such scheme for their relief, cannot but be offended with the appointment of Mr. Shepherd as.their District Governor upon this ground. On the other hand, from the lavish, reckless and corrupt expenditures of which Shepherd, as the practical head of the Board of Public Works, is accused by his enemies, and held as directly responsible for the creation of this vastly increased debt o! the District, it is feared that, from his promo- tion, this debt and the annual tax levy upon the citizens will be increased instead of being removed or reduced, inasmuch as the Presi- dent in Shepherd’s advancement not only en- dorses all that he has done but encourages the continuance of his costly system of city improvements. In his reply to Governor Cooke’s letter of resignation, General Grant says :—‘Under your administration of the affairs af the Territorial government of the District of Columbia, assisted as you have been by fible and energetic subordinates, the national capital has advanced towards what it should be with a rapidity that astonishes and pleases every one who has been away from ita few years and returns, Jf your successors in the office give the satisfaction you have given property owners in the District of Columbia, the people at large, and all who have an in- terest in the national capital will have reason to congratulate themselves in the new form of government given them.” The President, in this full and flattering endorsement of Cooke's administration in the improvements and expenditures, and heavy debts incurred by the Board of Public Works, manifestly doe#fhot believe a word of the hue and cry raised against Shepherd, and does not care a fig for that public indignation which he does believe has no foundation in trath against the officer. But is not this ap- parent indifference to very considerable manifestation of public sentiment carried in this case too far? A decent respect for public opinion, and particularly for the public opin- ion of the community directly interested, should govern the President in all his appoint- ments. Has this becoming deference to pub- lic sentiment governed him in his appoint- ment of Mr. Shepherd as Governor of the District of Columbia? From the general ex- pressions on the subject of the public journals ‘of Washington it is evident that the prevail- ing public sentiment was ignored in this ap- pointment—that personal considerations con- trolled it, and that, in connection with va- rious other appointments and manifestations of Executive favor, since his re-election, the ‘President has pursued a course whose ten- dency is towards Cwsarism, however innocent he may be of a design or a thought in this direction. We have nothing to say here in reference to the many accusations of corrapt jobs and expenditures made against Mr. Shepherd. That he has been actively instrumental in wonderfully improving the drainage, avenues, streets and parks of Washington is visible to the most careless observer, in comparing that city as it is with the city as it was even three years ago, But the question with which wo are dealing is the question whether to personal or public considerations the appointment is due; and we fear that the answer to this ques- tion must be that the government of the Dis- trict of Columbia has become a close corpora- tion, under the shadow of the national ad- ministration, and a government in which the public opinion of the community is directly concerned, is regarded with con- tempt or indifference. What, then, is this new government of the District of Columbia? Is it a government by the people and for the people? or is it a speck of Cmsarism ? i The Management of Our City Fi- nances—Scrub-Woman Economy. While Comptroller Green has been rolling up the city debt by twenty millions at a time, and increasing the amount of interest paid by the taxpayers from two millions in 1870 to over five anda quarter millions in 1873, he has been vigilant in scrutinizing the accounts of the sweepers and scrub women who are employed in cleaning the public buildings, and unyielding in his determination to dock them their two or three dollars whenever they might be detained from their work by sickness or accident. We have a specimen of this watch-dog policy in the case of a poor scrub woman who has recently been driven to ap- peal to the courts to recover six months’ pay due to her from the city for scrubbing at the new Court House. This poor woman met with a serious accident which prevented her for that period from performing the labor assigned to her, but the work was done for her by her daughter, assisted by friends. The city had the benefit of the labor of these vol- unteers, but Comptroller Green refused to pay the woman's bill, and drove her into the courts, Judge Fancher issued » mandamus to ¢ompel the payment of the amount; hence, even in his scrubswoman economy, the Comp- troller manages to saddlo the city in the end with the additional burden of costs and interest. The constant litigation which Me, Green of the increase of our city expenditure, of oun city debt and of our taxation. We recently that the expenditures of the Publial ‘Works Department, the most costly in tha city, had been decreased in one year since the fall of the Tweed and Connolly régime nearly: five million dollars. A comparative examina« tion shows that in all the, departmenta, except those in the immediate charge of Mr. Greém orunder his friendly protection, correspond. ing reductions have been made, while in the Comptroller's Department and one or twa others the expenses are much larger than they. were under the corrupt rule of the old “ring.” It may be that this arises from the taint of | Tammany which still hangs about the Finance Department, where deputies, heads of bureaus and clerks are still the old employés and co- operators of Connolly or former clerks of Tweed, who have been discharged from the Public Works Department and employed by: Mr. Green. There is, indeed, a strong savor of Tammanyism, if we may so call it, in the designed confusion of the accounts of the Finance Department. The Legislature failed’ to ascertain, and it is impossible ta discover, how much Mr. Green has cost the city through his passion for litigation. Wat find in his report an item of between eighteen and nineteen thousand dollars for “legal ex penses of the Department of Finance ;" but this is by no means all that has been spent im law. Under the ‘miscellaneous’ head there is twenty-five thousand dollars for the “‘ex< penges of Bureau of Municipal Correction,’ and all or nearly all of this, we believe, is for the luxury of law. Then, again, there is tha snug little item of ‘judgments” against the city for the year ending September 1, 1873, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars; and we do not know how much of this is fort needless legal costs and expenses. If we addi to this the ‘‘extra contingencies” item of forty thousand dollars, smothered in under tha, “miscellaneous’’ head, we may form soma idea ‘of the difficulties placed in the way of a correct understanding of the expensiveness our present blundering financial management and its scrub-woman economy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. pila Ste ol Thomas Carlyle 4s now fiving at Dumfriesy Scotiand, } Ex-Senator James Nye, of Nevada, is registered at the Grand Hotel. Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow, of Texas, is at tha: Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, is again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Gencral Sheridan arrived in Washings ton on Sunday evening. Edmund About has become Paris correspondent; of the London Atheneum, Secretary Richardson left the Fifth Avenue Hoted for Washington yesterday. Senator O. P. Morton, of Indiana, has been at thal Fifth avenue Hotel since Sunday. Prince Arthur of England narrowly escaped! drowning at Trouville, France, on the 19th ult. Mr. W. 0. Charlton, Secretary of the British Lew gation at Washington, is at the Brevoort House. Attorney General Williams came on from Wash~ ington yesterday. He stayed at the Fifth Avenug Hotel for a short time and then proceeded to ¢h@ East. “Ginx’s Baby’! Jenkins has been solaced for hisy late defeat in Dundee, Scotland, with a plece plate and £1,000 presented by admirers in tae town. 2 The late Duke of Branswick was borne to bi grave on the funeral car that was used at the ob« sequies of Louis XVIIL, the Duke de Morny ang Prince Jerome Bonaparte. ‘The arrival of the Bishop of the Falklands, Righ Rey. Dr. Stirling, in Buenos Ayres, has diffused general pleasure among the British commanitys His lordship is a distinguished member of Exeter, College, Oxford, and has been actively engaged fog more than ten years in missionary labors amon; the Indians in the extreme south of South Amel ica, A correspondent of the John Bull (English news~ paper) advocates the abolition of godfathers and godmothers, The causes which led to the institu< 4ion of sponsors have, he says, ceased to exist; th sacrament of baptism 1s complete without them, and ifthey were done away with very many re= ligious dissenters would return to the Estaplishead Churen, The Russian female students of medicine, rex calied from Zurich by an imperial order, hava made an application to the University of Gieseny for permission to pursue their studies at thag@ place, The medical facuity there unanimously re~ fused to grant the request, and expressed stipe disapprobation of women attending lectures such subjects, Acertain reverend gentlemen thinks that litere ary women should not marry., Mra. Hemans, Sigourney, Mrs, Norton, Mrs. Fanny Kemble But- ler, all nad domestic infelicity. Hannah Mooreg Miss Edgeworth, Miss Sedgwick, Alice and Phee! Cary, Louise Alcott, Elizabeth Phelps, whose to made the world better than they found it, did wel to remain single. Mr. Leatham, M. P., having declared to the Hud dersfield (England) Republican Club that, ;had hi not paired off with Mr. Walpole, M. P., he woul have voted for the increased annuity tothe Duke of Edinburgh, that organization has resolved that he “does not represent them, and add that they| shall be compelled to leave him in the ruts of tory- ism, and continue their onward march withou ” a. John Bright, as Chancellor of the Duchy off Lancaster, has the patronage of forty-one livings,, or rectories, in the Church of England, These liv- ings are of a widely varied character, ranging, { from Reston, in Lincolnshire, worth £116 per an- num, to Rothbury, in Northumberland, with the very comfortable incorae of £1,470 a year. Mr. Bright will, no doubt, prove himself a good “friend” to worthy, humble clergymen. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Sept, 15, 1873, ‘The Navy Department has received information of the death of Lieutenant Commander A. N. Mitchell, commanding the Pawnee at Key Westy who died yesterday of yellow fever, The marine recruiting rendezvous at Richmond, Ya., has been discontinued, and Licatenant Coch- rane ordered to command the Baltimore rendez- yous, vice Lieutenant Breeze, ordered to the Ver= mon', at New York. a The Secretary of the Navy has directed that a. certain lieutenant who lately returned from a three years’ cruise on the steam c orvette Benicia, in the Asiatic squadron, be sent back to that squad- ron, with orders to report to the Admiral com- manding, who is to keep him there until his deb’ amounting to several thousand dollars, are ait paid. This unusual proceeding has been rendered necessary by the numerous fiuancial delinquencies recently reported to tlhe Department from that jusrter, and is a serious Warning to other reckles@ jebt contractors, GENERAL M/COOK'S MURDERER, Wintermute Waives an Examination and Is Committed for Trial. YANKTON, Dakota, Sept, 15, 1873, P. P. Wintermute, the murderer Of General EF. 8. McCook, Secretary of Dakota ‘Territory, was brought up to-day for examination, He waived an examination and was committed to the Territorial jail to await his trial for murder at the October term of the United States District Conrt, over which Judge Barnes will preside. —_— The Late General McCook. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1878. The remains of General Edwin 8. McCook arrived here this forenoon, and lay in state in the Masonic Temple to-day and to night. The tuneral will take place at one o'ciggk to-morraw,