The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1874, Page 6

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Police Commissioners Gardner and Charlick, the one the President and the other the Treasurer of the Police Board, were yesterday convicted of a misdemeanor, in having wilfully violated certain provisions of the law in relation to elections in the city and county of New York. The verdict was unqueation- ably a surprise to the community; yet it could only have been a surprise for the ceason that the conviction of an indicted official has hitherto been of rare occurrence, and prob- ably because the agreement of a jury on a trial that was generally, if erroneously, re- garded as a piece of political strategy was con- sidered improbable. When we look at the plain provision of the law and the clear proof of its violation by the offending Commissioners it becomes evident that no other result could have been reached without umfaithfulness in the jury box, and we no longer wonder at the promptness and unanimity of the ver- dict. The Commissioners themselves must allow that the trial was impartially con- ducted, and the able charge of Judge Brady will oonvince every intelligent citizen that the prosecution was demanded in the public interests, whatever may have been the motives that prompted its initiation. The charge against the convicted Commis- sioners was for the removal of inspectors of election who had been regularly appointed and sworn into office, without a notice in writing setting forth clearly and distinctly the reasons for such removal, as required by the law. The section of the act relating to the appointment, transfer and removal of inspeoc- tors and poll clerks is carefully drawn, with a view especially to the protection of the voters in a political minority in the city, and its provisions should at least have been held sacred by officials who, though in power, really belong to the minority party. Public sentiment will indorse all that Judge Brady saysin regard to the importance of pre- serving inviolate the safeguards raised around the ballot box. But there is something more than satisfaction at the vindication of the law in the general rejoicing with which the ver- dict in this case has been received. The people believe that the Police Department has been managed in the interests of individuals rather than of the city, and they hail with TRIPLE SHEET. June 26, 1874 New York, Friday, From our reports this morning the probabilities are thatthe weather to-day twill be partly cloudy, with local rains. Tae Lapis’ Reocarra of the New York Yacht Club, which took place yesterday, was a very pleasant event, the day being’ fine one and the water smooth enough for the enjoy- ment of the fair sailors. ‘Tue Brusszrs Conaress is to take place after all, and it is to be hoped its great object— the preparation of an international code for the exchange of prisoners of war—may prove an example of complete statesmanship. ConcraTvLaTions have passed between the Emperor of Brazil and the President upon the success of the new cable between South America and Europe. This event is a healthy sign of progress in Brazil, and the Emperor has much reason to felicitate himself and his people upon it. Bauancrnc THE Bupcet is what they call the Deficiency bill in France, and M. Magne, the Finance Minister, believes in increased taxation for making iteven. It is the same problem with which the American people are familiar under the name of “paying the national debt,” and M. Magne, like Mr. Bout- well, wants to keep on paying. Scutumvc Rack on tHE Hupsox.—There was a warmly contested sculling race yes- terday at Peekskill, on the Hudson. The general interest in boating cannot fail to be advanced by events which excite so much popular attention, besides which they afford an inexhaustible source of discussion among boating men everywhere. Tax Pa®srxxt’s Nommxarion or SHEP. wxnp.—It will be seen by areferénce to quota- tions from the press elsewhere that the Pres- ident’s nomination of Governor Shepherd a one of the District Commission receives the general denunciation of the press, with the exception of the Washington Republican, which is understood to represent the Executive and the officials who on Tuesday, at Washington, met their Waterloo at the hands of the Senate. Concressman Dawes, it appears, refuses to go back to Congress for another term. He has served long and well in that body and deserves release if he desires it; but his district will not find it easy to replace him by ® man who can exercise the influence in the House which Mr. Dawes possesses. It is not to be assumed, however, that Mr. Dawes con- templates retiring from public life attogether, as his eyes are as yet scarcely closed to the Senatorship, which will be the chief question in Massachusetts politics this year. Proorass.—‘‘The frequent election of a Ohief Magistrate of the Repnblic agitates the country and too often threatens its safety. * * * It is desirable, therefore, to diminish their frequency.” So says Grant's Washington organ. This, let the people ob- serve, is not simply an argument for a third term. It is an argument to dispense with the formality of elections. So the game has ad- vanced a step, and the thin pretence of a ‘third term’ is already dropped. gratification the prospect of a complete reorganization of the Oommission. They feel, too, that this conviction is only the commencement of changes, if not of purification, in other departments of the city government, and they can now look with hope to the time when other officials who have violated law more grossly than the Police Commissioners will, like them, be brought to, The verdict of the jary strips Messrs. Gardner and Charlick of the offices they have hitherto held and excludes them from receiy- ing or holding any office under the city gov- ernment hereafter, or at least while the present charter remains a law. It is rumored that the Commissioners dispute this effect of their conviction and are backed up in their position by the Mayor, but we can scarcely credit the report. Section 95 of the city charter provides that ‘any officer of the city govern- ment or person employed in its service who shall wilfully violate or evade any of the pro- visions of this act," &., ‘shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in addition to the penalties imposed by law, and on convic- tion, shall forfeit his office and be excluded forever after from receiving or hold- ing any office under the city government.”’ The Commissioners were charged with violating the Election law of 1872, but section 118 of the charter provides that ‘the several departments shall continue to possess the same powers and perform the same duties as here- tofore, except as herein otherwise provided.’’ The duties imposed upon the Commissioners of Police by the Election law of 1872 are thus made duties under the charter of 1873, and, as the Commissioners have been convicted of a misdemeanor in wilfully violating those duties, they have clearly forfeited their offices. ‘Two vacancies are thus created in the Police Board and two of the most important posi- tions, under the city government are at the uncontrolled disposal of the Mayor. What willhe do with them? The Police commis. sionerships are eagerly coveted by the politi- gians on account of the vast influence they | wield over the elections, and, of course, Mayor | Havemeyer will be ready to make them the | basis of a bargain looking to his own renom- | ination. But with what political party will the | bargain be struck? It is evident that the event of yesterday makes a complete revolution in the political situation and places an unexpected power in the Mayor’s hands. He gets rid of two office-holders who, in the course of events, had become uscless to him, and suddenly finds himself in a position to remodel and control the most effective political engine in the city government, the wheels of which had become blocked. For although Mr. Disbecker has been trying to make his independent mark in the Police Department, and to that end has been hitherto in close harmony with Mr, Dar- yee, he is loyal to and will act in the interest of the Mayor. Two customers offer themselves to Mr. Havemeyer for this new trade. The republicans will be ready to renew the coali- tion they made with him during the legislative | session, when he cheated them with Commis- | sioner Disbecker. The security is now in | their hands instead of in the hands of the Mayor. If he will give them the two vacant Police commissionerships, and Mr. Daven- port for Superintendent in place of the aged | Matsell, he can have their nomination for | Mayor next fall. His part of the bargain ay CHiNGB, YoR THE Wart Srngzt Spzcu- must be performed now—theirs is to be per- tators.—In 6 fey days the July half yearly | formed at @ future day, hence they will not interest on the public debt will be paid, and , hesitate to rust him. Nor is he without some there will be disbursed from the Treasury | sort of a guarantee; for without an outside over twenty-five millions in gold, or its equiva- | combination the republicans are powerless in lent, and nearly two millions in currency. | the city, and it is doubtful whether they can Gold interest on over five hundred and twelve make a stronger combination than one with millions of five-twenties of '65, '67 and ’68 will the present Mayor. be paid, and also on upwards of two hundred | On the other hand, Tammany stands ready and eighty-two millions of 1881's. This.ought for « trade and will make a vigorous effort to to make the street lively, and, no doubt,the capture the vacant places. If Mr. Havemeyer | prokers and speculators are preparing accord-, will put their candidates into the commission ingly. Though a great part of the interest is it will insure them the Superintendent's due to foreign holders of our bonds # consid- office, and they are ready to pledge him in re- erable proportion is due and will remain here. turn their nomination for Mayor. It is Money is already abundent in this market, ramored that this latter programme is favored and the amount will be increased. Let us | by Comptroller Green, and that his influence hope it will flow out to help legitimate enter- | has been used secretly against the indicted prises and to move the crops and not be | Commissioners in order to bring abeut the lucid as o noo) fox morn otosk aumbliog Leerpeged aaulian Buk. us in costal, thot it. NEW YOKK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 26 the bargain should be made Mr. Havemeyer would im the end be cheated by Tammany either in the nomination or at the polls. In- deed, his best chance appears to lie in the republican direction, for while Tammany can stand alone, and with the Police Department in ite hand would strengthen itself by break- ing faith with the confiding Mayor, the republicans need outside help, and even with the Police Board at their command the patronage of the rest of the city government would be indispensable to their success. On whatever side Mr. Have- meyer may peddle his new wares, however, the verdict of yesterday must make a marked change in the political situation. Should Tammany secure him, the republicans may in- voke the power of the Governor to create a vacancy in the Mayor's office, and charges could readily be brought against Mr. Have- meyer sufficient to warrant his removal. If he should elect to strike hands once more with the men who plot all day to cheat the people and gamble all night to cheat each other, Tammany will be driven to extreme caution and broad liberality in making its nominations, for the combination will be a threatening one. Ifthe Mayor should throw both parties aside and endeavor to do business on his own ac- count on the capital of the full contro! of the Police Department, which he has never before enjoyed, then the chances of an inde- pendent ticket and a triangular fight in No- vember will be greatly strengthened. His de- cision must be promptly made, for there is no doubt that the conviction of Messrs. Char- lick and Gardner vacates their offices. An arrest of judgment can have no effeot on the forfeiture, although it would postpone the sentence of the Court, the legal penalty for the misdemeanor and the forfeiture of office being separate and distinct punishments. The latter is incurred and complete as soon as the verdict of guilty is zendered, although a re- versal of the verdict on a new trial would restore the Commissioners to their offices. The Police Board is, therefore, to-day without a quorum, and the new appointments cannot safely be delayed. The New Postmaster General. Mr. Eugene Hale, of Maine, is a very fortunate young man. Since he attained his majority he has always been in office, for nine years as prosecuting attorney of his county, for two years as a member of tho Maine Legislature and for five yearsas a mem- ber of Congress. Just previous to.his nom- ination by the President to succeed Post- master General Creswell he was renominated by the republicans of his district for his fourth term in Congress. Such continued ser- vice in the national House of Representatives is higher Donor than to be « Cabinet officer or a Senator, but there is a glamorabout either | position that is apt to entice so young a man as Mr. Hale. Still the appointment appears to be a good one; for he has sustained himself well in Congress, notwithstanding he has had j the disadvantage to men of small capacity of having a very particular friend in the Speaker. So partial was Mr. Blaine to this young favor- ite that he made his colleague successively a member of the committee on Appropriations and of Ways and Means. In these committees Mr. Hale showed great aptness for business, and thus proved to a great extent his fitness for the place to which the President has called him. Practically the Post Office Department is the most difficult to manage of all the departments of the gov- ernment, and Mr. Creswell succeeded so well in avoiding scandals on the one hand and well founded complaints of inefficiency on the other, that the place is all the more dif- ficult for Mr. Hale. People generally have given up looking for political significance in General Grant's Cabinet appointments, so they will scarcely look for it in the nomina- tion of this young man from Maine, and yet it seems to reveal some glimmerings of political shrewdness. Blaine may be weak- ened thereby in the very house of his friends, and both Maine and Michigan strengthened in their attachment to the present order of Why Dig It Up? If it is possible to keep a scandal on the sur- mud from which it sprung if let alone, let us nanimous a thing to expect of common human nature that it should help to quietly strangle a story that has for its sole and infamous purpose a fatal injury to the character of @ long-trusted and well-tried- minister and friend. By all means, if it is possible to blacken any one's character who is not at present over-clean, or to smirch the fair purity of a life that has never been suspected, let us not lose the opportunity. It will never do to have too much integrity or purity of life in those about us, and especially in our teachers and public advisers; and if we can take a story which in its ginning was feeble and unable to go aloné and manage to roll it over and over, seeing to it all the time that it gathers weight and bulk as it rolls, why, ere long we shall create a aort of public opinion which will at least shake its wise head and say, ‘Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire.” We see that the Beecher scandal is not yet allowed to sink to the oblivion with which we would gladly cover it. Dr. Leonard Bacon, at the recent Congregational council held in Brooklyn, was unfortunate enough to mis- represent the status of Theodore Tilton. He is generally very careful in his use of lan- guage, but on this particular occasion he left his dictionary ot home. His words were not exactly balm to the sensitive wounds of Mr. Tilton, and the latter gentleman, who would not for the world stand in an equivocal position, rises once more to explain. The misrepresenta- tion took place several weeks since, and the public had already forgotten all about it. It may possibly be that they were so occupied with the more important question under dis- cussion that they were not even sware that any slip of the speaker's tongue had opened a yawning abyss into which Mr. Tilton was likely to fall. The people had made up their minds as to the verdict which the Council ought to render, and they were not disappointed. They did not care a whit about the personal relations between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton, neither are they particularly interested in that matter at the present time. Mr. Tilton’s position before the Council was simply that of a bee who was buzzing about the wrong hive. He knocked at the door twice, but in both cases the Council was not at home. He was compelled to carry his wounded heart in his angry bosom until a better occasion should offer. This wasa great deal to ask of any man. The old adage about letting dogs de- light to bark and bite, for 'tis their natare to, has a direct application to bipeds as well as to quadrupeds, since the ingenious theo- rizing of Darwin has made one happy family of bipeds and quadrupeds alike. It was: certainly too much to ask of Mr. Tilton that, with a. By burni thought in his manly bosom, he should ir the storm of his eloquence and keep still. If there is really a large and undue accumula- tion of bile in his system the sooner he gets rid of it the better. It would not be fair to ask him to live on in apparent health when we all know that his liver is in a very dis- ordered condition. Now is the opportunity to say what he has to say, and after he has found relief we shall all feel better. If it is abso- lutely necessary to his happiness to keep Ply- mouth church in hot water it is a pity that we should deny him that small comfort. On the whole we are sorry that Dr. Bacon was not more careful in his utterance, or per- haps it would have been better had he not spoken at all. The people are tired of this scandal and will be glad to see it laid at rest. The recent Council was convened for the purpose of supplying its pall-bearers, and in that capacity the members at- tended to their solemn duties with becoming propriety. They accompanied the remains, after all the gossips of the land had enjoyed their last look at its face, to the place of things. Besides, it isa bauble which the old Pine State seldom receives, and it may have its effect in helping to turn the tide in the coming fall elections, Maine being the test State in regard to the complexion of the next Congress, and the first sign of the estimation in which the administration is held by the people. Taking all these things together General Grant has done well in the appoint- ment of Mr. Hale, and Mr. Hale has had another proof of his own great good fortune. A Lanoz Onop or Democratic Gover- noks.—The little State of Vermont has many aspiring politicians, but one would hardly ex- pect to find more than half a dozen clamoring for one office. It is said that more thana score are working like beavers for the demo- cratic nomination, and one paper—the Bur- lington Sentinel—mentions W. H. H. Bingham, of Stowe; H. B. Smith, of Milton; Henry Gillett, of Richmond; Jasper Rand, of St. Albans ; D. O. Linsley, of Marillo; Noyes B. B. Smally and E. J. Phelps, of Burlington, as the names likely to be submitted to the Con- vention. How would it do to put the names of all in a hat and bind the democracy of the State to make each one Governor in the order in which he is drawn out of the hat? It would be a ‘‘Vermont compromise’’ beside which the ‘‘Missouri compromise” would sink into historic in significance. a Tae Proceepinas or THE Boarp or Appon- | Tioxment yesterday will be read with interest | by the taxpayers of the city. The pretence of Comptroller Green that the information so properly demanded by Mr. Vance and Mr. Wheeler cannot be given without delaying the completion of the estimates is of a piece with the deception and trickery evident in all our city financial affairs. Mr. Green first delays the action of tae Board and then pleads want of time as 4 justification for keeping the | people in ignorance of the details of his in- competent and extravagant management, The | Board of Apportionment should go carefully | over the estimates, cut off all such sums as | they believe are not absolutely necessary and compel a vote on each proposition to reduce the expenses. The people will then ascertain who favors economy and who is responsible | for extravagance and waste. Doas.—Three minutes under water will kill | any dogin the world; but they keep them stifling and struggling in carbonic acid gas sepulture, deposited it in its grave, raised an appropriate headstone and went home, never dreaming of a resurrection. Mr. Tilton, how- ever, with the unerring instinct of » medical student who is in search of a fresh corpse, armed himself with pick and spade and, taking poor Dr. Bacon as a dark lantern to be used when occasion required, repaired to the spot where the funeral services were held and vigorously threw out six feet of solid earth, and at last he struck the coffin. Nothing can be so dead that he cannot revive it. He took the ghastly story from its resting place, magnetized it into a dull semblance of life and thrust it before the public gaze. It was unpleasant work to do, even under a stern sense of duty, and there are those who say that the paltry excuse that justice to himself required it is of that gossa- mer nature through which any man can see. Mr. Beecher’s past life is unparalleled for general success and for the largest influence. He has preached from Plymouth pulpit to half the population of America, who treasure up his witty and wise sayings with great affection for the man who uttered them. Take him for all in all his equal cannot be found either in America or Europe. The magnetic throb of his public life is felt beyond the Rocky Mountains, and the brave words he | utters from Sabbath to Sabbath echo and re-echo from the lakes to the Gulf. About this whole matter he prefers to be silent, and | perhaps the story will die all the sooner if let severely alone. The public affection for the Brooklyn preacher, which makes the Continent ring with his praise, as well as the general cause of religion, which weakens when one of ites strongest supporters is thus bespattercd with mud, demand that this whole matter come to an end, that it rehabilitate its grave, and that the headstone on which the council engraved its verdict of acquittal be set up | again. SUTIN EN PALI Tae Ramnoap Disaster ov Canapa.—tThe | New York fast express train was wrecked a} few miles west of London, Canada, on Wednesday night, when going ata high rate of speed. The engine, two baggage and two passenger cars were thrown from the track, a fireman was instantly killed and a brakeman was seriously injured. ‘The rest escaped as if by miracle. A rail had been removed from | the track by, it is supposed, some fiend in | ¢numan shape for the purpose of robbery. It | is really wonderful that all on board were not | killed. If the disaster was caused, as be- for thirty-two minutes—as a result of Mr. ¥ interferences Lijeved, by some bese wretcb..or by more then | 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, one, it is to be hoped he’ or they will be dis- covered and punished to the utmost extent of face.which would naturally sink beck into the | the law. Of all crimes this appears to be the worst, amd whosoever may be guilty of it do it by all means. It would be too mag- ought to be hanged at once as unfit to live. Mr. Bergh Wriggles a Little. We give elsewhere a note from Mr. Bergh, bearing the great seal of his society, engraved with a device which, in an indistinct impres- sion, seems to represent an angel riding on an ass and Balaam trying, like the famous Tur- key gobbler, to ‘‘yank her off behind;"’ and this, like the society whose labors it typifies, characteristically reverses all that has been heard before on the subject of angels and In this note we are more or less distinctly be: charged with publishing a falsehood in saying that Mr. Bergh had invited those who wished dogs destroyed to send them to him. This is called ‘‘Heranp frescoing with an unmuzzied pen."’ Hitherto we were not aware that the pen was used in frescoing, and that is all that needs to be said of. this wonderful flight of humor ; for as Mr. Bergh isa serious man we could scarcely require him to be successfully funny. It is a great tribute to the Comic Muse that he should even do awkward homage before her. From the report of the proceedings in Court when the Poundmaster was arrested—a report published more or less fully in all the city papers—we make the following extract. It is Mr. Bergh who speaks :—‘‘If in the car- rying out of the ordinance unnecessary cruelty is inflicted on dumb animals we have a right under the State law for the prevention of cruelty to animals to put a stop to it. People having dogs aud cats which they wish to get rid of can have them killed at the headquar- ters of the society. The surgeon, by injecting & powerfal acid, kills the animal in one- quarter of aminute. According tothe method in use at the pound fully twenty minutes seem to be necessary.” Did Mr. Bergh say in Court that ‘people having dogs and cats which they wish to get rid of can have them killed at the headquarters of the society,’’ or did all the papers falsify the proceedings of the Court? There can, we believe, be no doubt that Mr. Bergh used these words; and even though he should deny them there would be just as little doubt, for stenography is a better dependence than memory, especially when gentlemen suddenly find that their own words are against them. As for the suggestion in regard to so-called “aristocratic canines,” we should scarcely have expected to find Mr. Bergh thus indulg- ing himself in a direot incitement to what he calls theft. If it is an outrage to ‘‘steal” dogs we fancy it is such without regard to who may happen to own the dogs, but this is appa- rently not the opinion of the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. For our part we do not belitve there is any gentleman residing on the corners de- scribed whose opinion on the merits of a law would be affected by the thought of its possible operation on his dogs. Incredible as it may seem to Mr. Bergh there are people in this city who do not look upon dogs as of more consequence than the general public welfare. Generally it is very difficult to know wha, Mr. Bergh wants, and he is recognized as a difficult man to please. But we now know at least of a few things he likes. He likes notoriety, and we trust we have helped him to it, He likes to see his name and even his bad jokes in print, and in this “last in- firmity of noble minds’’ we have indulged him. Furthermore he likes curs. His canine fancies are democratic. He believes that those whom nature, fortune or their own capacity as hunters or courage as guardians have favored should be brought to the lower level, and that the mongrel whelp and cur of low degree should be exalted atleast to equal treatment. In fact, he is not merely a democrat. He goes further. He is himself the greathead and front of the canine commune, and he must not modestly try to put this honor on others, Medical Climatology and Vital Sta- tistics. A measure of great importance is now pend- ing in the English Parliament looking to stat- tory provision for accurate vital statistics. Viewed as a humane act euch a law, fairly executed, will prove a most powerful check on crime, for # good registration of births and deaths, requiring accurate returna, is the best detective of many forms of murder. But apart from this aspect of the matter the col- lection of full vital statistics has a vital bear- ing upon medical science, and especially that interesting branch of it known as medical climatology. The progress of science in observing the atmosphere and noting its varied conditions simultaneously over large territories has greatly stimulated sanitary and medical in- quiries, and reopened the study of climate and air conditions as sources of epidemic, or Boston scientist made the valuable announce- ment that with a diminution of atmospheric pressure the gases set free by putrefactive fer- mentation were increased and the nauseating effects made perceptible in some choice parts of the city. In consumptive diseases it is stoutly claimed that at an elevation above the sea, as in Mexico, on the plateau, seven thon- feet, the symptoms are alleviated, and seldom, if ever, originate. The perpendicular distri- bution of yellow fever is, we know, limited to well defined altitudes. The summer fevers rage notably within given belts of low coun- try, and lose their power in the highlands and mountain districts. A given range of the thermometer will arrest, as a different one will speed, the march of the epidemic. Great extremes in the wetness or dryness of a season mark the periods of great mortality, one ex- | treme aggravating certain classes of disease | and the opposite exciting other contrasted classes. The prevalence of a peculiar wind | will make its impression on the public health, and the apparently delicate variations in atmospheric electricity, it has been con- tended, have greatly modified the virulence of cholera. The beantifal and beneficent investigations in medical climatology, which have been from time to time awakened and maintained by such observations are among the most practical and progressive steps modern medical | science has taken. But the great difficulty | in comparing the climatic and aérial condi- | tions with a view to determine their sanitary | influence has been the lack of exacter an: fuller stabiation of birth and mortality. Ko \ | | as therapeutical agents. A short time ago a | sand feet high, and in Peru, at ten thousand | the successful prosecution of medical or sanitary meteorology the scientist) mast have the vital as well the aérial statistics for the purpose of comparison. The laxity of the present registration of deaths and births isso great that, except in a few cities, it would, perhaps, be impossible to trace the morbific effect of a great thermometric change, or humidity extreme, much leas the other atmospheric changes to which man’s delicate organism is so exquisitely sensitive. Some of our States have enacted rigid and stringent laws for the collection of the birth and death statistics, and it is highly important all States should do the same. Such legislation would greatly facilitate and encourage the prosecu- tion of sanitary science in the many beautiful and benign researches which now engage its best minds. Tae Conviction or tHE Porice Commi SIONERS On this side of the East River, follow- ing 80 closely the conviction of the Brooklyn Charity Commissioners on the other side, will, no doubt, alarm those city officials who have so defiantly violated the law in their official acts. Mr. Stern knows of the existence of the limitation in regard to purchases of sup- plies to the amount of over one thousand dollars. How can he justify before a court which has convicted Charlick and Gardner the purchase of dry goods of his relative, Sternbach, in bills of three thousand dollars, and the subsequent division of the bills into amounts under one thousand dollars for the purpose of wilfally evading the law he knew he had violated? How can Mr. Laimbeer justify his purchases of super and No. 2 State flour in large amounts at extravagant prices without bids? How can the Comptroller justify the payment of such bills, especially after the attention of his department had been called to the fraudulent character of some of them? There is more work yet for the Grand Jury to perform, Some Rerrencument Arrer ALL.—Accord- ing to the statement ot Mr. Garfield, Ohair- man of the Committee on Appropriations, at the summing up of the acts of Congress ap- propriating money, the aggregate of the bills show a diminution of $27,763,787 below the appropriations of last year. With this redaco- tion and the favorable reports of incoming revenue the government is not likely to want money, and will have, probably, a consider- able surplus to apply to the sinking fund. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, is staying at the Gilsey House. There is @ startling ramor that Voggia’s comet {is some one else's. ‘Viscount de Monstery, aged twenty-eight, aiea at Paris of sunstroke, Now the nocturnal odors of the ailanthus stife the industrious mosquito. Shepherd “will provide,” if he can, for the Sema- tors who made mutton of him. Congressman Jay A. Hubbell, of Michigan, ts stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Samael K. Dawson, United States Army, is quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman John W. Killinger, of Pennsylvania, is registered at the Union Square Hotel. Congressional Delegate George Q. Cannon, of Utgb, bas arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. éond Adventists now say January 1, 11901. Thoughtfal editors will put it in their diaries. John Wesley was baptized at Bethlehem, N. BL He has been a long while taking to the water. If the colleges go on as voluminously as they “commence” tt will be dreadful before the year ts out. It looks as if he had sometime had occasion te say, in the words of Horace, ‘‘Deprendt miserum est.” Ex-Congressman U. B. Matteson, of Utica, ts mong the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Henry Wilson is said to be engaged to marrya lady in Philadetphia. Nothing to do with the Oem- tennial. Mr. Von Westenberg, Minister of the Nesher- lands at Washington, ts residing at the Hotel Brunswick. The Paris Patrie believes that the abdication of Victor Emmanvel is not distant. Prince Humbert will succeed. Liewsenant Governor Joho C. Robinson arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening from his home St Biognamtas Senator William B. Allison, of fowa, and Oon- gressman Samuel Hooper, of Boston, have apart- ments at the Brevoort House. Don Carios is reported as looking handsomer since he has taken toa fall beard. It covers his feeble mouth and bis bad teeth. Senators Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, and Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Slang spreads. Only recently a gentleman called for the ‘‘bouilli” in a French restaurant, and the waiter served tt with an apt “Bully for mon- steur.” Talmage has written a book on “Old Wells Dug Out.’ If this means Gideon ne is hollow enough already, aud if it refers to his nayy itis disre- spectful. ‘The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton are cruising in the Mediterranean in their steam yacht. At Corfu the Duke shot two wild boars weighing 200 pounds each. Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister, was at the | Clarendon Hotel yesterday on his way from Wash- ington to Newport, R.1. He will return to this city to-morrow. William Fumbieson and his son went shooting in the woods near Manchester, Ohio, and lost one another. Fumbleson saw the boy at the foot of the | tree, mistook bim for an animal and shot him dead. Prince aod Princess Metternich have left Paris for London, the Rothschilds for Ferritres, Prince de Ligne and family for Belgium. Many houses are closed in the capital, and only fashionables re- tained by oMicial duties remain, Mr. Edwards Pierrepont said at the Yale Law | School semi-centennial, “No government can prosperously endure which in the matn is not aa- ministered by the higher intellect and the higher moral sentiments of the people.’ What of this city, then? What of this nation? ‘The Washington National Republican quotes in support of the third term policy the observations of Hamulton on the folly of rendering men tneligi- ble for the Presidency after @ certain term of service. Hamilton argued against depriving the country of the services in office o1 some very capa- bie man, and the argument would apply, there fore, if Grant had been @ great success as a Prest- dent. That he has been this even the Republican will ely be shameless enough to claim. Mz. Evarts at Dartmouth was hard on George M1, Hesaid:—‘Had Lincoln, in dealing with the administration of government during the late re- bellion, insisted, a8 George [Il. did, in nis treat- i} | ment of the American Revolution, upon ‘the right of ! employing as responsible advisers those only whom he personally liked and who were ready to consuit and execute his personal wishes ;’ had he excluded from his counsels great statesmen, like Seward and Uhase, as King George did Fox and Burke, who can measure the dishonor, division and dis- aster into which our affairs might have fallen? Such narrow intelligence and perversity are ae little consistent with the true working of admin- istration under our constitution as they were un- der the British constitution, and ag little con- sonant with the sound sense as they are with the d generous spirit of our peopie.” How fortunate it 1a for the country that Grant does not behave aa TU, dias