The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1873, Page 10

CHASARISM. The Opinion of Wm. H. West, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, The Third Term Movement and Its Uni- versal Disfavor Ihroughout the West. The Great Feudal System in America. BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio, Sept, 20, 1873, le poremance to directions received a few days since | Visited this Mi Ue city and called upon Judge Witham H. West to ascertain his views upon the thitd term probiem. Your correspondent found him tp his Wbrary, surrounded by his books, and quietly enjoying his after-dinner cigar. 1 was cordially Welcomed and Juc~e West expressed the greatest interest in the discussion which has Brows out of the HERALD’s © \itoriais upon “Cwrsar- tem.” Be haa evidently given considerable atten- Mon to the legal and constitutional questions of the @iscussion, and expressed his perfect wiling- mens to converse, The following imterview then tottowed — Henan Conarsronpent—How do the republicans of Ono regar’ (be Movement to confer @ third Pres S@ential term on General Grant? Judge Weer-—With unueual disfavor, so far asl have heard am expression. Uniess public sent- ment shal be revolutionized OF circumvented, Dut fe delegate of Obi0 can be carried for it. THE CONSTITUTION NOT EXPLICIT ENOUGH. TIRRALD CORRESPUNDENT—I8 Uhin disfavor based on considerations of & personal character? Judge West—Not to any controiiing extent, Con siderable dissatisiaction prevails growing out of some approvals by the President at the close of ‘the last Congress, Notwithstanding this I think the gratitude of the people towards, and their confidence im, the President were and are still #0 great and sincere that if be were standing for & second term the great body of republicans could be easily carried for him. While, therefore: it t true that the republicans of Ohio might not Sor any ¢ xXisting considerations make Generali Grant an exception to the second term precedents estab. Mshed in the re-election of Washington and other Popular favorites, advancement to a third is open to objections which override ail mere considera- ons of gratitude or persona) confidence. HBRALD CORRESPONDENT—The constitution mast then be supposed to interpose a barrier to a third term? Judge WeetT—Not more than it does to a second, It certainly contains no express inhibition, and contemporaneous interpretation, confirmed by the acquiescence and practice of half a century. is de- cimive agaist any implied interpretation. THE KVILS OF TUX PRESIDENT'S RE-RLIGIBILITY. HERALD ConnesronpENT—Am I to mmfer that there are, independent of constitutional impedi- ments, precedent and considerations of public policy, controiling reasons ior Opposing the third term suguestion? Judge WeetT—The very gravest. It is significant that no President has hitherto sought or stood for a third term. This cannot be atirivated to per- sonal considerations, In point of ability, integrity, patriotisin aud popular regard many of the earliest Presidents would compare favorably with those who have succeeded thea, Re-eligibility was re- garded by them as of questionable propriety. Mf carried beyond & second (erm, might estab! Precedent fraught with consequences of danger and disaster, What the constitution failed to check by positive provision they, therefore, sought to restrain and correc’ by the wisdom of their ex- ample. So thoroughly sanctified has become this great precedent that the people look upon it as no Jess sacred than the constitution itself aud its Vio" lation ds A SACRILRGE NOT TO BE TOLERATED with impunity. The plea that Washington, Jeqer. won and Jackson were solicited to stand for a third term 1s worthy the purpose and the motive that prompts it. Parasites and fMatterers of the dominant régime have existed under every administration. Rendering to it an homage com- Mensurate with their iuterest in its continu- ance and their insignificance when it shall expire, it is not surprising that they should urge its per petuation. From the example of such al nt precedents may bé drawn by modern mmious Jor soliciting General Graat to CROSS THE FATAL RUBICON. Whether he shail y to the seduction of the | tempters and sufler the slime of their sycopnancy | to tarnish his great fame or be governed rather by the patriotic aud sell-abnegating precedents o1 his illustrious predecessors the future will disclose, Very many republicans look upon the principle of | re-eligibitity as unwise, and Would regard auy at- | tempt to carry it beyond a second term with just | Apprehenusions. With the high opinion hitherto extertained for the purity of patriotism 1 am unwiling to bell ‘Of precipitating his party upon new compli and subjecting his country to the strain of danger. ous experiments. ONE TERM THE NATION'S SAFETY, HERALD CoRRESPONDENT—I adduce from your observations that while diebelieving the constitu- tional inhibiuon of re-eligibility you consider its | existence as an incongruity in our political ays | tem. 18 this so? Judge West—Unquestionably. That the Presiden- ual tenure is not restricted to a single term is the fatal omission in our system. ‘ius is not —_ | dng, for, the system being at ite jormation without precedent in history, the practical workiags of an elective presidency entrusted with the dis | pensing of more than imperial patronage could | Not have been anticipated in ail its extent and con- sequences, But the experience of less than & cen- tury has demonstrated that the means and the | Motive which the system combines tor corrupting | public virtue are withoat historic parallel, The re- tention of the MORE THAN REOAL POWERS with which a President is clothed constitutes the Motive; an army of appointees holding posivion by executive grace, to Whom and through whom are controlled and disbursed the imperial revenues: Ofthe nation, are the means. Add to these the administration, members of Congress who have usurped the authority and assert the right to dice tate the local appoilitments im their several dis tricts, which they look upon as 4 patrumonial sa Tapies, and the whole constitutes army of oceu- pation, compact, tenacious, Vigiant and remorseless. Amibition do not willingly brook defeat. Having once embarked it does not acruple in the on ag of means to achieve success, In a struggle of doubttul propriety or questionable popularity unscrupuiosuness will be mommaararete with the necessity for its employ- meni THE EVILS OF A BAD PRECEDENT. Hitherto precedent has accorded to the President ® second candidature without serious contest, Extraordinary appliances have been demanded only to acu: e re-election. Even this, however, has worked u lameotabie aud alarming strain on | biic Virtue. Patronage 18 parcelied out to sen: rs and Kepresentatives as the rewa and devotion. It is bestowed as the consideration fo) edn and partisan vassalage. Servitude or ostracism are the mild conditions Of its distriiu- tion. If these things are THE FRUITS OF THE SRCOND TERM precedents what can be expected it they be over- ores nd a third and fourth be demanded? The ambition iat will disregard and trampie upon the sacred examples of the fathers will have resolved to make its desperate venture succeed at au hazards, It will have calculated to arouse, en- counter and overcome the determined resistance of those who venerate the consecraced practices of the epublic and are unwilling to assent tnat Rome contains but one man, and, conscious that THE GIBBET OF HISTORIC 1GNOMINY awaits a iailure, will await nothing to avert the doom and crown with success its desperate re solve. Having passed the Rubicon a triumphai entry ot the Capitol will be made, though the wreck of \ty- erty gtrew its progress. if a second candivature the great example of sancuioned bi Washingto and sanctified by the acquiescence of eighty ye is not without its corrupting tendencies, what may be anticipated from an insatiate ambition grasp- ing ior a third candidature and term in v 100 | of Congress from the Eighth district of Tennessee, | Mr. Nunn was elected im place of Wiilam W. Mai NEW YORK ted with its breath, and the crew, drunken with its poison, the ship, with its freight of oleh will sink benhath its Stygian It ia ancredible that General Grant should persuaded or flat- tered into launching i & voyage of such deadly Peril to liberty, country and his own illustrious THE MISTAKE OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT. Emma e Ole See ers wey ad —— bare os erations jainst the principle of re- eligivility inall vanes? page WeEst—In respect to offices dispensing oficial patronage to any considerable amount they may, and tor this reason the example of Wasning- ton im accepting a second term has proved most uniortunate; but as it was bestowed by the unani- mous Voice Of lis country’s gratitude and affection, without the agency or prostitution of otlicial pa- tronpage, its consequences in the struggles aud conflicts of future ambitions could not have been foreseen. Could he have anticipated the abuses USURPATIONS OF POLITICAL EXIGENCY to the growth of which his example has given rise his patriotism would have shrunk irom estadilish- ing @ precedent so uniortunate, By the constitu- tion all official patronage was lodged with the President, subject only to the negative and cor- recting power of the Senate in session convened. | The theory was that the popular branch of the Con- gress should remain forever uncontaminated and iree from its influence to consider the popular wants and provide for the common welfare. In- stead, however, the last half century has witnessed the steady growth of the most impudent and shameless usurpations, Successively have Sena- tors and Representatives of the party dominant for the time seized upon and partitioned the patronage of the government as another Poland ‘until the usurpation has ripened into an asserted right. For the promotion o! their own re-election— hot the common welfare—it has beea unscrupd- lously wielded, REVIVAL OF THE FRUDAL SYSTEM. So absolute is the usurpation that Representa- Uves bave become the satraps of their districts; the local patronage thereof has become their patri- Mony; local appointees their henchmen aad vas- sails. No patriotism, no virtue, no devotion to country, can receive recognition at Washington that does not present itself in the livery and wear the collar of the petty district magnate, It is not enough to be of the same political creed, Neither the hero’s scars por the soidier’s sucri- ices, nor patriot’s services furnish a passport. Attachment to the fortunes and household of the district despot is indispensabie. The President 1eids submission to his local rule on condition of ealty and service im promoting his re-election. The heads of departments retain place as the re- Ward of their cringing servility. Representatives are banded together to support each other in this petty tyranny, and call it “THE CONGRESSIONAL RULE.” Senators openly combine to aid each other and Giso their Kepresentatives by confirmations or re- jections, as the interests of each may dictate or | demand, and call it “the Senatorial rule.” in alt | Uwe the President, looking to his own re-election, submis, im consideration of Senatorial and Con- gressional vassalage and support, and calis it “Executive complacency.” To supplement this a corruption fund, under the name of compensation, is drawn from the National Treasury to furnish the sinews of political war in future Caucuses and conventions. in the principle of Executive re-eligi- bility is the germ of this corruption. In practice, though hitherto limited to a second term, it has quickened into alarming proportions, THR GRAVE OF PUBLIC VIRTUE. Public virtue cannot hope to survive its develop- Ment when stimulated by the doubly intensified animositics, passions and jealousies of the struggle for @ third term, Until re-eligibility, in which the motive jor prostitnting Executive patronage has its germ, shall have been discarded, presidential as- pirations tor the succession will continue to pur- chase the feaity of Senators, by permitting them to dispense it in subsidizing ‘legislatures; of Repre- sentatives, by suffering them to employ it in vassal- izing districts and controling primaries, caucuses and conventions by their armies of hencumen, re- tainers and Janizaries; thus corrupting the very jountains and original! sources of political power and poisoning the system from heart to extremity, ihe statesman or journalist that | shall succeed in arousing pubiic at- | tention to a sense of this greut demoralization, and shall revolutionize and break up the practice of satrapizing states and districts by, aliowlug Senators and Representatives to dictate and con- trol its distribution with a view to securing their | own and the President's succession, will achieve | for the Republic a benefaction no less deserving of | immortal gratitade than he who founded it, | THE DANGERS OF AMBITION. HERALD CounesronDENT—Are you of opinion that if General Grant should strike for a third term he would hesitate to create an exigency in public affairs necessary to secure his re-electiou? Judge Weer—The compassing 01 success is the instinet of ambition, and ldo not suppose that the ambition of General , if capable of ase piring to the success would prove an exXeeption to human nature. If he strikes 1 should expect it to be with a | resolved purpose to make the blow | effectual, He cannot afford to and would not | brook defeat. He cannot now, at therclose ot a | career so briliaat and tllustrious, amord to have nset behind a cloud of discomfture—amid «i exuitation of opposing triumphs. If | he moves it will be to carry bis Works by whatever means are adequate, But l shall not suppose him capable of betug so rasnly tnfuenced by the para- pene ANT ee ma et sites and fatterers woo hang upon his skirts. The | crime is inconsistent with the patriotism of his He will not precipitate vis party or 'y into 80 Irretrievable a guif. | After some jarther general conversation on the | interesting topic the interview ended. POLITICAL NOTES, Hon. David A, Nunn, the newly elected member has openly declared bis intention to vote for the repeal of the Salary Grab IAw. Mr. Nunn does not mean exactly what he says, because that law can- not be repealed under the provision of the consti- tution which declares that the President's compen- sation “shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shail have been elected.” A new law may be passed fixing the sal- aries of the members of Congress at $5,000 a year, Vaughan, a salary grabber, On the 54 of October Oregon will choose a mem- ber of Congress in place of Joseph G. Wilson, de- | ceased. The issue, besides the general one, ap pears to be on endorsing the actions ofthe new | United States Senator, James Helpel Mitchell, alias | James Mitchell Hetpel. The democratic candidate, James W. Nesmith, condemns him, while the re- | publican, Hiram Smith, finds him not guilty and | hopes he will not do # any more, Sam Bowles, of the Springfeld (Mass.) Nepubli- can, says that when United States Senator Oliver | P. Morton, of Indiana, @ays (as he did) that the | Tammany Soctety made the nomination of Horace | Greeiey, he “lies and the treth ts pot in him.” The laws against dueliing in Massachusetts are very — severe. | ‘The Boston A@rertiver keeps pegging away at | the administration, It says:—“The republican party of Massachusetts may safely be relied upon as an administration party as long a* the adminis: tration is worthy of support, and we wish it to be distinctly understood that federal ofMfice-hoiders add no strength to it as soon as they lead of in opposition ty tue honest wishes and seplunente of | the party.” A negro is ranning on the republican ticket for | the Obio Legislature in Hamilton county. Hon, Allen G, Thurman ill spare neither moner, labor, infuence por promises in Oto to get hiim- sell re-elected to the United States Senate, His term expires With the present Congress. | The Luston Congreyationaiet, one of the most tp- Quenual reugious papers in Massachusetts, has | been dipping into the potica: puddle and throwing some duty Water 1p (be foe of the administration. there seems to be no doabt—that t time in the history of our « part of the basiness for which they are id, and Massachusetts is Bot accustomed to li pot toverate tt The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader (radical) mourns over the action of the Repubiican Convestion in Cuyahogs county, and refuses to be comiorted. It says it will not support the teket put forward. Bolting is always tw order. ‘The Montgomery (Ala.) 4@vertiaer is seeking to be recoustructed, 84 Bo joarbal ia the entire South Leeds it more, The Paducah Kentuckian, noticing the resetation of the late Massachusetts Democratic State Con- vention charging the republicans With seducing of these consecrated precedents, in defiance of dmmemoriai public sentiment, in disregard of just popular fears that it may be the beginning of the conmct for permanent personal dynasty ? Corruption, brazen, shameless, gigantic; patron- n, 8 j, age prostituted, the press Gubedized, ‘Cabinets, Congressmen and conventions debauched; virtue ostracized, servility advanced! Than this the horrors of rebellion, the scourge of civil war, Jess to be deprecated. Whether successtul or dis comited, the deadly poison will have been in- Jused, to corrode and lester as a consuming a oe lg aad is the life-current of public . The decay of the 1ormer works the ex- tinction of the latter, J CORRUPT VIRTUR AND LIBENTY DIES, ‘The old ship will pot Ae down in the tempest of gontending opinion. n corruption’s worms ‘Rave petiorated its keel the shrouds become rot- cis TWEEDISM IN NEWARK. Another Batch ot Hard, Stubborn Facts. Desperate Attempts to De‘eat the Citizens’ Inves- tigation—Suspected Traitors Given the Quiet Go-By—A Case That Puts Caleb H. Earl's Case in the Shade—Flinty Fact Nuts for the Officials to Crack. So deeply and exclusively absorbed are the peo- ple of Newark just now in the matter of their own local affairs, the daily developments proving that there is, beyond doubt, in their midst a mean (mi- tation of the Tammany, Butosted and Brooklyn “rings,” that if the bottom itself was to drop out of Wall street, the financial hub of America, they would still go on asking the question :—'‘How many more Broadwells have we ?” and continue urging the Citizens’ Committee to investigate and find out. Meanwhile the most desperate efforts were made pending the meeting on Friday night to ren- der nugatory this citizens’ movement looking toa complete overhauling of the books in the several departments. There are five daily papers pub- ushed in Newark—one democratic (outspoken), one of the say-nothing democratic stamp, one independent, of slight influence, and two weekly sheets, One republican is the most powerful of its party 1m the State. For reasons obviously, party and personal, it secretly opposes the citizens’ movement by silence or by arguing with the lamest logic possible that the Finance Committce 1s fully able to do the work of investigation de- manded by the citizens, The other republican sheet is violently opposed to the movement, but Its influence 1s not worth considering, even with the party it professes to speak for. Every paper in the city protesses perfect willingness to print any statement the ring or its members may make in response to the charges against them. But with Jew exceptions, one and all preserve THE GOLDEN RULE OF SILENCE. * One member of the noble army of city serving patriots Mr. Joe” Young, Chairman of one of the Street Assessment Commissions, tried his hand at card writing, but, it would appear, made a ter- rible muddle of it. He excited only a feariul rebuit, This worthy declared that the cost tor commis- sioners’ 1ees alone, of all commissions upon which he had been engaged, average only $210 47, “as the records will show.”? Now, one newspaper scribe looked at the records, and at the first glance found one job, Central avenue opening, which cost over 1,600 “for commissioners’ fees alone, of which ir, Young himself appears to Nave pocketed nearly 1,200.7 Among the other items is one of $600 for legal expenses for making out filty deeds, A law Judge of Essex declares that $300 would have been handsome pay tor the work. Hence, it is not surprising that Mr. Young and his friends have been dumb as Ore ever since. In justice to Mr, Young it should be stated that he has tong worn the demo- cratic livery, Two other gentlemen of the City Hall, ex-Receiver of Taxes Justice Mills and Com- missioner Charles Merchant, have tried their hands at card writing, but only to burn their ingers badly. Mr. Mills especiaily has been sorely tried, Ponting not likely to bother the paper with cards again, THE EFFORTS TO KILL THE COMMITTER have not been confined to the ring press by any means, Other ring influences have veen brougiit to bear ona number of noted persons, some ac- counted democrats and some accounted repub- licans, who moved heaven and earth trying to ack the committee of one hundred and the work. Ing sub-committee with traitorous elements—that is, traitorous to the peoples but, 80 far as the HERALD representative 1s reliably advised, with no more success than Mr. Young met with in the “record” business. On THE AB UNO DISCE OMNES PRINCIPLE the following {acts are cited and printed now for the first time:--A certain prominent man was origin- ally appointed on the committee. Asit was believed he could, to borrow ex-City Treasurer Hartshorne’s remark, “play upon the piano” in the City Treas- urer’s Office, it Was thought great things would come from him in the way of developments. He an- nounced his determination to do all in lis power for the good work Of municipal purification, On Tuesday morning, however, he met another active member, and, alter a good deal of backing and filling, said that perhaps it would be better for him not to serve. He had been at the City Hall, had seen the Finance Committee at work, and thought the citizens ought to wait and see what did before moving turther. “You can,” said he, “count me of.” So he was, but in the evening, at the mecting of the big committee he was there AS LARGE AS LIFE. Re had, he said, thought better of what he had said in the morning. Subsequently he tried hard to be appointed on the committee to investigate the City Treasurer's office, but the true iriends of the movement could not be hoodwinked auy jonger, and his name 1s Ce te pier d omitted irom the committee. ‘fhe eyes of watchful members are di- rected also to the strife-breeding movements of several democratic members. Thus far the com- mittee, considering the significantly prudent hang- back conduct of so-called leading citizens in the movement, have, according to general consent, done remarkably weil. THE EARL OUTRAGE OUTSTRIPPED BY ANOTHER EARL CASE. ‘The HeRatp last Monday published exclusive! the astounding detatls of the case of Mr. Caleb Earl, who had been assessed $5,500 for “improve- ments’ done his property. Improved (!) und all as his property 18 Mr. Karl is willing to sell the whoie o1 it Jor $2,000, He defies the city to make him pay. All the response this met from the ring or its Organs was the very conclusive argu- ment that the HERALD representative took a lead- ing part in the cause ofthe people. But A WORSE CASE STILL is herewith published for the first time. In 1871 the City Surveyor gave Mr. Wiiliam H. Earl, & cousin of Caieb’s, the grade of Sm gs tm) ave- nue, as decided by the city authorities. is prop- erty extended five biocks—irom Earlto Bigelow. Mr. Karl haa tapi his property beiore, but re- solved to again grade it, in accordance with the city map. He gave the contract to M. Shanley & Son, and paid $6,697 32. His street improvements altogether cost him $18,035 13. He had employe’ City Surveyor Peter Weitzel, and paid him $20, ‘for which he has the receipt. He also has the receipts for the other bills, Soon alter the work of grading, curbing, &c., had been completed, Mr. Earl began his jots, assuring purchasers that th ave no trouble, just as Mr. Weitzel assurec Mr. bark, A Mr. Hopper bought a lot aud began to build, Its house was nearly completed, when he received @ bill trom the city ror assessments for grading, curbing, &c., the street in front of his property. The city had picked up where Mr. Earl had Sagnea—rom the end of his property. Its officers demanded pay for work done and paid for by Mr. Karl. Hopper was modestly asked to par $495 on each lot purchased. Naturally, he Jel back on Mr. Earl, but first went to 2 “poss”? the City Hail Ring—Alderman Stainsby. »y told him contemptuously he would have y any how, He went to City Counsel Francis, who aimitied the thing was all wrong, but that, had he known of ft before, he would have fixed it, Bari went to the “Boss” and others, and they all claim, with Francis, that it was wrong, but could do nothing about it. Alderman Armstrong, has aiways Leen regarded as a model City Father, advised Earl to keep the matter quiet, as it might interiere with the $1,500,000 issue of bonds Whica the City Fathers wanted to get through the last Legisiature. The joregoing statement was ob- tained ‘rom Mr. Eari’s lip? by the HERALD repre- seutau to whom were shown the receipts, The iter is now in the hands of Judge Teese for legal adj udicauun, $850 on $1,700, whicH ? Florian Leyers, a resident of No. 60 Springfeld avenue, makes the following statement;—When the Springfield avenue job, one of the most dis- Sracesul jobs of work done by the city, was com- pleted, be was awarded damages of ¢ for prop- erty taken supposed to be lis, He demurred, took the Matter in'o Court aud got @ verdict tor $850. Shortly aiterwara egal representative Wok him 4 bad calling for $1,700. Me said nis bill was on); $550, bat he was petuiently told to “Never min but agp th. z il get your bill ali right.’ He 00 and got gsi0, Of course the question comes up, Who got the overplus, the $850 Wd it go ior “legal expenses 7” IN THR REAL KATATE BUSINESS. Another uttie case in which Mr, “Joe” Young appears to be implicated is the following:— uenry G, ne. & Newark printer, owned « of property on South Four- teeute street. Afraid he would be ruined by he assessment street, ht visited Mr. for opening up the Joe” Young, the chairman of the Commission, He was confidentially advised that be bad oetter sell. Mr. Young, it is deciared by Mr. Lane himself, told him in an offhand way, a wwe to the query, “Where can I get any- | | democratic members of Congress inte the corrupt | ody to bay?” tuat it Was a little outside their Schemes of the republican party, expresses the ~+ “yp fear that (he democratic members so seduced were sas vod as word. He of rather ‘easy virtue.” gig A. Taylor, Menten! ‘The Westville (Miss.) Nera, in what it terms 6 Y and, @ relative oi quiet and impassioned article on United States | ¢ 4 orange to may, Senator Adelbert Ames, son-in-iaw of Ben Butier, into ‘On bag eye 4 report of Massachuseits, and radicat candidate for Gov- mmon Coun ie price awarded to Taylor for th ernor Of Missiasippl, Who endeavored to secure ais 200 $500 move—aithougl onty 00 Rovout of te re-election to the United States by bullying the meet by Lane was taken by the city, ALL THE COMMITTRES Legisiature, of the citizens Sega work yeste: and these Would that an avengio, aud bundreds of Ff well authenticated facts will deserving be t before them. The next lew weeks pro- cass of mise to be more exciting than ever and to reveal earth and BewW iraads of an astounding character. Aire: ‘that hi ue. S.Segme te tects © the ays of the ring are num- scend fy) the Broadhead’s case is now beiore ihe Grand saghe of SRR and Wrangie lorever ZAEy, and | seems opt unukely that others Wil loi- TAPAN. The Recent Popular Agitation---Causes of Its Origin aud Progress. Peace Restored—Diplomacy in China and the United States—Mor.’s Opinion of the Home Situation — Christianity and the Chureh—A Chance for American Territorial Acquisition. Yorowama, August 21, 1878, <The disturbances that I have had to record in my two last letters have ali been quelled, and the country i once more peaceful, In all except Fu- koka the agitation was put down withont any great dimiculty or loss of life, The various pre- fectures have sent in reports to the central gov- ernment, and from these I am able to arrive at a tolerably fair estimate of the causes and extent of the troubles, and am only surprised that they should have caused the alarm which they did. From the Owake district the Governor states 10 his report that there were many motives that ac- tuated different persons who took part ip tue insur- rection, Some declared that they desired the re- turn of their Daimio; othera wished to put a stop to the export and killing of cattie; some wished to prevent the demolition of the stone idols on the roadsides; some desired new omicers for the ken, others that the official salaries should be increased, Some desired the reduction of the land tax; others demanded that that tax should be abolished altogether, and some insisted that the recent ordinances as regards tne diferent religions should be rescinded, and that It stiould be forbidden to cut down any more trees or to de- molish any more Buddhist temples, These were, in fact, only some of the different demands made by the insurgents, Some were so ridiculous that they were not worth attention, In this district the insurrection was put down by the government acceding to the demands of reducing tue taxation and changing some of the pubiic oficiais, ‘the rioters in Tsuruga demanded that a stop should be put tothe spread of Christianity; that the feudal system should be returned to, aud that no foreign books should be read iu the schools, At the sight of government troops, however, these reformers slunk to their homes, and so in the other places, In Fukoka alone, however, the insurgents seemed to be in earnest, as they destroyed a great deal of property and killed several officials, They also sustained @ severe engagement with the govern- ment troops, but were ultimately put down by the latter, who killed several in the engagement, and the ringleaders having been surrendered, these were promptly beheaded and quiet was restored. The officer to whom the reports of the governors of the different districts were made thus sums up in his general report:— ‘The different risings were caused by bands of worthless fellows who leagued together secretly, and by thelr au- ily and persistence stirred up the foolish populace. ‘These men, disappointed in their own ambitions and ruined in their prospects, were actuated simply by feel- ings of jealousy and exasperation at the conspicuous good fortune of others. Still, the people fell into their snares, and, believing their’ baseless stories to be true imagitied that the government was oppressing them, an $0 jolued in tumultuous risings. One cannot bul feel pity tor the delusions under which the poor, misguided people labored. Many of the complaints made were without the slightest foundation in tact. Asto most of demands made by these people it requires no argu- mnent to show how entirely impracticable they were. and we thereiore refrain froin dwelling on them any fur- ther. We believe thut we have heard the last of them, DIPLOMACY WITH CHINA, Soyeshima has returned irom his mission to China, where, it 1s said, he met with extraordinary success, Not only was he the means of solving that knotty audience question over which all the Ministers of the Western Powers had been racking their brains for the last two years, and having lis reception take place first, though Japan was tue last Power to make a treaty with the Fiowery Middle Kingdom, but he has settled the im. portant points of his mission to the en- tire satisfaction of the Japanese govern- ment. ‘The Chinese government withdraws all claim to jurisdiction over the Loo-Choo Islands, and has undertaken to punish the Formosans jor their barbaric treatment of the Japanese, and to teach those savages that hereatter they must least on other meats than fricasseed Japanese. Itis also stated that China has promised that, in case of any dificulty between Corea and Japan, the latter WLI be allowed to do as she pleases without any in- terference on ner part. The treaty is immediately to be put in force, and China is to send a Minister to Jeddo and consuls to the various open ports without unnecessary delay. A MINISTER HOME FROM AMERICA, Uninori Mori, late Cantee a’ Affaires at Washing- ton, has returned. to Tokio, My duty to the HERALD compels me to state that fora man who was expected tu commit hari-kari immediately on his arrival here he looks remarkably hale and hearty. Ihad along talk with him the other day, but he failed to tell me at what date he was going to carve himself up—in tact, he is so obstinate be does not appear to have the slightest intention of dissecting himself. He spoke very ireely about the affairs of the government, and admitted that he was vastly disappointed. He was not prepared to find things so uncomfortably mixed as they are, He says that the Japanese do not understand either the meaning of the word or tho results to be obtained by progress. It is @ mere desire tor change, he thinks. “We are in @ deplora- ble state of confusion,” he remarked. ‘There seems to no responsible head at the present time. Everything is awatting the return of lwakura, and I cannot see how he is to set all things right. The fact is that the government is now in the hands of inexperienced young men, and this state 0} affairs cannot just ye' be reme- died, because we have only the choice of this kind of men and old men Wuo are Wggled to the oid condition of things. Lam afraid Slt some great national calamity will have to befall ws beiore our governors learn wisdom.’’ I failed to iearn from him how even a great calam- ity would remove the troubles that he reierred to. ori is not, in my opinion, a statesman nor one versed at all in statecrait, but he appears to be a man of good common sense. in spite ol the many blunders he committed m Washington. And I be- leve that ere long, 80 lar trom being disgraced, he will occupy a very important position in the gov- ernent of Japan. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OP JAPAN are staying at Wyonvshita, a summer resort about seventy miles from Tokio, which contains hot sul- phur baths. The Empress is in an interesting con- dition, On his return the Emperor will take rt in the opening oi the new polytechnic school re- cently completed, and over which Professor Mur- ray, late Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Kutgers’ College, New Jersey, is to preside. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATION. By the steamer which leaves San Francisco for Japan on the Ist of September Mr. Bingham, the new American Pientpotentiary to the Court of Japan, is expected to arrive. 1 have no doubt that there are many men in the United States, and probably Mr. Bingham 18 one of them, equally as capable of filling the position of Minister to Japan as Mr. DeLong. But it cannot be denied that Mr. De Long must have a recommendation whicn the others do not possess—namely, experience. Four years’ residence among the Japanese must neces- sarily bring with it some advantages that might have been brought to v in favor of American interests, Despatches have been received at the United States iegation addressed to Mr. Bingham as Minister Plenipotentiary, &c., although the State Department must have well known that Mr. oe. had not yet left his home, Matters which Mr. DeLong had referred to the State Department at Washington, have not been noticed, and last mail he did not receive a singie communication Irom that Department. REY. DR. NEWMAN, Chaplain to the United States Senate, and “the ersonal friend of the President,” 18 still sojourn- ing at Yokohama. He was sent out here ostensi- bly to investigate the consular affairs of Japan, vhina, and the rest of the world, But the innocent chaplain has made no secret of the fact that, as he wanted to travel, he being the personal friend of the President, and intimate with forty Senators and a majority oi the lower House, the place was created for him, The responsibility attached to his office of investigating the conduct of consuls does not seem to have weighed very heavily upon him. He has visited all the famous places of Japan— even went to the top of Fusiyaima, perhaps to look for a defaulting consul—and, whenever tne japanese have put forward a book in which the names of foreign visitors are registered, those who visit those same places hercafter will be delighted to read the bold ra of the Senatorial Chap- THE TELRORAPH is again reported as bemg complete between this and London. AMERICAN THRRITORIAL ACQUISITION, When the late W. H. Seward was Secretary of State he constantly hed hi atches of real estate with tl the government still estate, and don’t mind, like Joshua do & little in islands,” there is igot smart chance” out in this part of the world. Has any- body ever heard of the Bonta islands? Presu: that bat few have, I will endeavor to intorm those who have not, About 600 miles to the of the southern part of capen es & group consisting 4 of two iarge isi separated from each other b channel about fifty miles wide and a number of TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1678—QUADRUPLE SHEET, on the map of Japan. They were to be upinbabited, and in fact were so until some avo. In 1826 the first settlement was sailors, Commodore Perry recomm of the group, Peel nd, a8 far back as 1853, an availaole depot for the steamers which, it seemed probable to him, might even ply between California and China, Since then several people from the Hawati group have settled there, and the Bonin Islands have been made asort of rendezvous for whalers, «A jew years ago an American named Pease went there and in @ degree took possession. He com- menced to raise sheep, and led between the islands and Japan in @ small schooner, This man now rules Peel Island with @ high hand. These islands would not be bad for the United States to have Jor @ coaling station, and in case of complica- tions in the East they would make a desirable uaval rendezvous. I am quite certain possession could be easily obtatned, even if the Japanese did claim sovereiguty, which is doubtful, and I have ‘heard that Pease does fly the American flag. ROWING RACES AND REGATTAS. The National Amateur Regatta. It must not be forgotten by our numerous row- ing clubs that the national amateur regatta will take place this year on the waters of the Schuyl- kill River on Tuesday, the 7tn of October. The amateurs of Philadelphia are making suitable ar- Tangements to insure the success of their under- taking, and, if the weather should prove favorable, it will, no doubt, be one of the grandest affairs of the k.nd that ever took place in this country. New York should, and no doubt will, be well repre- sented. Already we hear that tne Nassaus, the New York Boating Club, the Argonautas, the Mu- tuals, tue Beaverwycks, the Aualostans and three cluvs im §Philadeiphia have presented their claims for positions in the four-oared race. For the dour bie scuils there will be four or five from New York, besides some prominent oarsmen from other places. For the single scull race there will be six trom New York, two trom Philadelphia, two irom Albany, one irom Union Springs, one from Grand Haven, Mich.; one trom Rochester, one irom Bal- tumore and one irom Washington—fiiteen in ail, and quite enough, if there should be no others, to make the race the most exciting one that ever Wok place. The entries for all the races will cose to-day with the Secretary, at-122 Waverley place, in this city, New York’s Champion Oarsman. ‘The St.John (N. B.) Zelegraph, of September 20, thus speaks of New York’s champion oarsman:— The conduct of John Biglin and his friends, who are entirely alone in their expression of the opin- jon that he actually won tne single scull race, are the cause of considerably severe reflections on them, Claiming, as the Kiglins do, to represent the best boating interests of New York, As they are known, however, not to do so, and their status as gentiemen is now estimated by their acts and Janguage of Thursday iast, their childish com- plaints and unworthy aspersions are allowed to pass as entitled only to the consideration usual): uccorded to the utterances of other people of their class when under undue excitement produced by well understood causes, The Senior Crew of Yale. The senior Yale College shell crew have been chosen and are already in training for the fall regatta, The following compose the crew:—Messrs. Green, Dunning, Waterman, Bristol, Henderson and mon: roe. Regatta in Maine, The annual regatta of the Maine State Rowing Association will take place at Bath, on Wednesday, October 8. The Next University Regatta. The Yale Record of September 17 says:— There will probably be a lively discussion this winter as to the best place of holding the next intercollegiate regatta, From the aissutistaction arising Jast year it is Very probable that the crews wiil be unwilling to row at Springfield. ‘There are maby objections, and some which should have great weight in the final decision, why this contest should not ve held at Saratoga. But there 18 no cause jor alarm at present, as tue Kowing Association of American Colleges 13 tuily able to decide the quesuvod, giving equal advantage to all. In the opinion of boating men whose judgment is not to be disputed Saratoga presenjs beter advantages for a course than any other place. There is no question but that the lines at the start and finish shonid both be at right angles to the snores, and each crew should have equal advantage. This was shown to be impossible on thé Connecticut at Springfield, tor some of the boats must necessarily have the double aid from deep water and the cur- rent, while others are crowded toward the banks. ‘The next regatta will prove, without a doubt, of | greater interest to the spectators, and the result will give better satisfaction if the press of the country should take a back seat, Boat Racing Tatk at St. John, N. B. “The day after the regatta at St. John,” says the Telegraph of that city, “there was some talking done in reference to @ matctf bet..een the "Longshore and Paris crews Mr. Conwell, stroke of the Port- land four, expressed the opinion that his crew could beat the Varis Jour, and expressed his will- ingness to make @ match to row them in three or four days for $500a side, As tae Paris crew are going to Halifax this morning their friends stated that they could not row so soon, but offered to make a match for $500, to come off in about ten days, and to pay the reasonable expenses of the ‘Longshore crew, should they be willing to remain in St, Joan and row at the end ofthat time. Twig, bow oar of the Portland crew, did not seem willing to take on amatch with the Paris crew, and, in tact, said he would not consent to doit. Conwell, however, seemed anxious to make the match. He was then told that if he could get on @ match for his crew with the wards he would be backed for a part of the stakes, at least, in St. John, Some conversation that took place elicited the statement from Conwell that Morrissey, of Saratoga, had said that at the time the Sar: toe regatta was Porm he up to come oif after the Halitax carnival the Paris crew wanted him to give them $2,000 to go to that place. cCon- weil was then told by the fnends of the laris crew that if Mr. Morrissey had made such a statement he had no authority for it whatever, as it was en- tirely untrue, and that if Mr. Morrissey or any one else wished to make @ mavch for $1,000, to be rowed at Saratoga between the Pari® crew and any other crew in America, they had only to name their men, - up their money and the St. John four would be backed for the amount and go and contest the race, Mr. Morrissey or any other gen- tleman payin, their expenses only, Mr. Conwell was assured that if he wished to make a match for $1,000 and row the Paris crew within a fortnight from three weeks his crew's expenses to St. Jonn from Portland would be paid by the St. John crew, or the latter would go to Portland and row a $1,000 match, they receiving expenses. The matter was discussed in a very frienaly spirit, and, although there was considerable bantering, beth parues ees the best of iriends, hoping ‘to meet another jay. SUIOIDE OF A PRINTER Affectionate Farewell—“Farewell, I Die!%—Shot Through Hi te Coroner Kessler was notified yesterday to hold an inquest on the body of Edmund Piotrowsky, ayoung Pole, aged 26, who committed suicide at half-past one yesterday afternoon. Piotrowsky ‘was @ young printer, who had been but two months in this country, and resided at tne Dispensary, at No. 227 Fifth street. He was visited yesterday morning by one of his Polish friends, John Meyen- aorf. Ptotrowsky appeared perfectly rational, but Meyendorf, as testiied before the Coroner yeste: day afternoon, noticed a letter on # table addressed to the doctor of the Dispensary. it, he heard a voice from another room “Meyendorf, my friend, farewell. 1 die! He went into the room where Piotrowsky was, thinking that it was all tun, and offered to shake hands with him, when the young Pole placed a pistol at his heart and Sred. He fell to the hoor, He was writhing and moan- ing for a minute, and then breathed his last. The deceased always behaved in @ rational manner, and was undoubtedly sane, but he said some two weeks ago that “if he ever fared iil some one would find him in the water.” Officer Robinson, of the Seventeenth precinct, testified that he found An Piotrowsky lying on the floor shot through the | heart. A revolver, two barrels of which were dis- charged, was found by his side. Piotrowsky was employed as @ printer at 24 Stanton street, in the Office of the Abend Zeitung, but, as Mr, Meyendorf asserts, he only earned $8 @ month, jog @ stranger in this city he became very desponden and this 18 supposed to be the reason why he si If, The body was removed to the Morgue. BROOKLYN'S DEPU ITY TREASURER Mr, A. D, Wheelock, of the Third ward, Brooklyn, was yesterday appointed Deputy City Treasurer, by Treasurer Andrew Cunningham, in piace of M. T. Rodman, removed for alleged embezziement. Mr, Wheelock, who is @ “liberal” republican, will enter into bonds in the sum of faithful discharge of the duties of ‘was formerly engaged in the boot ness in New York, and is said to be Adapted for the responsible position hi in chosen. _ ET DROWNED IN THE HUDSON. At Yonkers, Westenester county, yesterday, Coroner Meeks held an inquest on the remains of an unknown man found floating in the Hudson River near Glenwood on the previous afternoon. Deceased was apparently about forty years oid, aout built, without rear or whiskers, and was dressed in & black brown joons and heavy laced of the pockets was about Nothing > gentleman instantly «lived, and also a man. While looking at | ‘The Court Audience Question—Its Pirst De- ign and Subsequent Difficulties, War Demonstration Against Formoss—The American Embassy—Sweep of s Typhoon and Severe Loses of Shipping—A Foreign. Merchant Drowned. Suanonat,: August 12, 1873, One would have thought that, with the consume mation of the wishes of the foreign Ministers at. Pekin in having been allowed to enter the august. presence o! the Emperor of China, that. we should cease to hear any more of that perpiexing audi- ence question, But it is not so, Although the: Western plenipotentiaries have been received, the: result seems to be by no means satis{actory to the foreign populatton, It is msisted thatin the edict? granting the audience foreign Powers are referrea toin derogatory terma—as inferior Powers. No» notice of the interview has been made in the Oficial Gazette, It is claimed that the great rea-- son why foreign Powers demanded that their Ministers should have personal audience of the- Emperor was om account of the great moral effect this act would - have upon the people of China generally, As no publicity is given to the fact that the Emperor consented to- these personal receptions the anticipated effect is entirely wanting. One thing is certain—that not. one Chinaman out of a thousand believes that the Emperor has condescended to receive the envoy of a foreign Power, The few who do belteve it oti insist that he would not do it unless those foreign- ers 80 honored performed the kotow and knocked their forebeads on the foor, Be this asit may, the fact remains that the foreign Ministers have had an audience, but whether they will ever have: another 1s a question, WARK AGAINST FORMOSA, Pekin letters iniorm me that the government o} China is preparing to take energetic measures to compel the savage aborigines of the island of For- mosa to behave themselves in future, Le-Hi Chang has been commanded to prepare an ex; \- ition to go to Formosa, and to severely punish those who are concerned in committing certain outrages upon some shipwrecked Chooans, who Were cast on their shores @ lita over a year ago. Six ioreign built war vessels and sixteed armed junks have been ordered to Chek whence the expedition is to start for Formosa. It is supposed that this matter was fully discussed between Prince Teh and the Japanese Ambassa- dor, and that the Chinese government made @ formal promise to the Japanese that they would punish the Formosans ior their depredations and keep them in order for the future, MK, LOW, UNITED STATES MINISTER to the Court of Pekin, leaves by this steamer for the United States, and it is doubtful whether he will ever return to Ohina, Mr. Low’s career as Minister has been anything but briliiant. He has failed to impress himselt favorably either on the minds of the Chinese or the foreign residents of China, and I feel confident that not a single Ameri- can resident in the Empire will hear of his nent retirement with surprise. SWEEP OF A TYPHOON. We bear from Amoy that a very severe hoon swept over that place on the 21st of July, and which did much damage, both ashore and afloat, Several houses were partly unrooied in Koolang-seu, and the damage sustained by the shipping is consider- ‘Bele. The Italian corvette Vendetta left Amoy on the 24th, in search of the German schooner Forget- me-not, Which was reported to be outsiae, dis- Inastet Another German schooner, from Keelung to Amoy, witli coal, was leaking so badly that she had to be beached. A correspondent oi the same paper adds :—ilie txphoos rexched its heigut at & quarter past two P. M., when the barometer stood at 29.34 The destruction among the native craft has been very great. the shipping in the harbor has more or less suifered, fhe british ship Taunton, alter breaking both her anchors, drifted asnore on the Kocks, but succeeded in getting off the next tide. The German bark oa parted three anchors, and drove through the harbor. eventually bringing up on the muiniand at the north end; she is now afloat again, and is waiting to be docked. STATE OF THE WEATHER, ‘The heat has been very oppressive in SI this last Summer. It bas ranged for the last teen days irom 92.8 to 97.5. ‘ SANITARY ALARM, In Hong-Kong there is great excitement on account of the prevalence ot cholera at Singapore, and fears are entertained that it may be brought. there, All vessels arriving !rom Singapore are. quarantined, ‘Ihe Governor 61 Si Dn Nws aso instituted quarantine measures, and’ reports to Hong Kong that so far there has not been a single case of chvlera in Cochin China. A MERCHANT DROWNED, A fatal accident occurred on the 4th of August at Hong Kong, by whicn .Mr. Ottley, of Gilman & Co,, lost his lie while bathing. Daily Press gives the following particulars :— It has been customary for several gentlemen, Instead of remaining in the enclosed area of the bath, long swin in the harbor and last evening, seven and eight, Mr. Ottley was one of the namber who had ure were outside. ‘The Canton .ovr-oared cutters, were coming in at the time, and, probably Moment of thoughtlessness, Mr. Ottley crossed in front of the Hebe, just clearing her jal EA heap eee but or ae poi suddenly, he nust have been struc! one ashe ravea short cry and dis ry ed? Within the space of a lew seconds the cutter w: ere aes pe “Opowum ‘and Avon, “while. one jer jajesty’s sl s y Astantly ‘from each of fie boats butt was Not unt tho lapse of several min= utes that’ Mr. B. W. Nazer, who swam trom the bath, suc- cceded by. a very praiseworthy and gallant effort, in Brangitig him tow suttace, On being brought to the bath Drs. Murray and Cruickshank did all that medica skill could suggest to resuscitate the body, without such cease. KINGS COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. . Sheriff Williams Acknowledges the Over= charge, and is Willing that a Deduc- tion Should be Made in His Bill—@5,305 To Be Deducted=The Investigation Come mittee Discharged from Further C sideration of the Charges. The regular weekly session of the Kings County Board of Supervisors was held yesterday after- noon, Supervisor-at-Large W. J. Osborn, of the Sixth ward, in the chair, A communication was. received from District Attorney Britton asking: that $1,000 be appropriated for expenses of his office, for which he has been compeliea to pay out of his own pocket. Referred vo the Law Commit- tees. Several vetoes on minor resolutions were re- ceived from tie Supervisor-at-Large. ‘The special committee appointed to investigate the charges of malieasance made against Sherif A. G. Wiliams submitted their rej enclosiig the following letter Irom the Sheriff, acknowledg- ‘g each and every charge preferred against in, es nt Cor ooRLER, Sept 19, 1873. To Messrs, Cow, Rypen and Corrnett:— \Gxwtuxwen—Hrom the evidence produced by your com- mittee, and trom personal in ation wl { have mince made, 1am now convi that, the system of frauds at the County Jail, as charged by Supert tendent did exist. i theretore deem any further ton unnecesary, as I am wi to all charges as claimed tobe deducted the ercharges aud irregularities have been carried my suboruinates without my kmowledge and against my express wishes, and in vistense ot my wen to thems 1 my —- DUTY Ag AN HONEST Lins ncurred by the investigating com- ‘osligaton would pot have been neves- jons been carried out. The annexed i i Raloment wil show the allotment of money Saad Janu. and number ot days’ charges to sald oe eS terakaye! fees irom ary 1G July 1 ask your committee to suggest some equi- asses ieitlenveat v, GW. me to the above Was a statement showing 4 received irom debtor prisoners was. $788, and tue umber Of days’ board jurnisued to 412, ay ecmmaeee reported that they deemed it. unnecessary t continue the investigation any yartner, as they have no power to punish those who bave committed the frauds, The committee ded the deduction of $5,806 to be ade bu. They also recommenved the price for debtor prisoners- W paid toe Sherif tor elvil prise Harman Fowler spoke a vor of the Sherif, as having intended well, while Sk mene fenene a Bacar ad ot ee om Was made by the Jn the Applica’ bondsmen Fishe: divorce suit, Messrs. Boyd and Davia, to re- tne hic! refused. '