The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD aera BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every Four cents per copy. An- day in the year, nual subscription price $12. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 4 LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD--NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | Subseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX .No. 181 : = —== | AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between rince and Houston streets.—THE TWO sl-TRRS: OK, THE DEFORMED, at 3 P. M. ; closes at lo:45 P. M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and’ Miss lone Burke. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—sAVED FROM THE WRECK; OR, WOMAN'S WILL, at 8P. M.; closes at lu:30 P.M. “J. Z Little. MUSEUM, s ieth street —THE SCOUTS OF M. closes at 4:30 P.M. Same at 8 MRS. CONWA ROOKLYN THEATRE. THE SEVEN DWARFS, at 3 P. M.: [closes at 10:45 | PM. ‘TRAL PARK GARDEN. ‘and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON. | ; closes at 10:30 P. M. COLOSSEUM, 5 way, corner of Ih rty-ffth street—LONDON BY a T,at l P. M.; closes at 5 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. \ HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street. GRAND S OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P.M. and Madison. P at? P. avenu: CON TRIPLE SHEET. Jane 30, 187 New York, Tuesday, From our reports this morning the probabilities are thal the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with local rains. Tse Presipent’s Return To WasHINGTON will be the occasion for the transaction ofa great deal of business in the departments which requires the action of the Executive. | Then General Grant will be ready for his summer rest at his cottage by the sea. Ir Mr. Bow es, the editor of the Springfield dieyublican, should become a Member of Con- gress in the place of Mr. Dawes, as is now proposed, we shall probably have some inter- esting debates between the ‘independent journalist’ and General Butler. Spary.—Farther news confirms the victory of the government forces in Spain over the Carlists. But it seems that the veteran Mar- shal Concha has lost his life. The death of Concha will be a moral blow to the cause of | Serrano. He had been for many years one of the foremost men in Spain, and especially in the policy of reaction and repression. Tue Crops iy AtaBama.—The Alabama papers agree that the crops this season will | be quite large. The Montgomery Advertiser states that the prospects for grain of all kinds | were never better, and wherever harvested | “the wheat has turned out splendidly. Oats, while not as good as expected, still make a fine yield. Throughout the State the corn is good. From present appearances meal and flour will be cheap enough next year.” We Arg Guap To Learn from the World that “the imperial presents of great beauty and value” which the German Emperor has be- | stowed upon Mr. Bancroft, our Minister at Berlin, will be forwarded to the Patent Office at Washington. As the World well observes, the German Emperor has “many thousands of | admirers in this country who will look for- | ward with pleasure and interest to the oppor- | tunity of examining in the Patent Office these | tributes of respect and appreciation.” Governor Densison Accerts the position of Commissioner of the District of Columbia, | and was promptly at the Treasury Department | yesterday, to make arrangements for the pay- | ment of interest on the District bonds on Thursday next. Full provision for the pay- ment, it is said, has been made. The other | Commissioner, Mr. Blow, is expected to-day. Looking at the respectable character of Gov- ernor Dennison and his associate, it is to be hoped the affairs of the District will be straightened out and thoroughly reformed. Turmrezn Iniicrr Distruuermes have been discovered in two counties in Georgia—Haber- sham and Rabun. The United States revenue officers, assisted by the deputy marshal, | seized the contents and destroyed them. If | we understand the despatch right there were | revenue officers connected with the fraud. The officers acting for the government were attacked, and an attempt was made to rescue | the offenders. Evidently there are those in | Georgia who like cheap whiskey, and are not | particular as to how and where it may be made. These extensive whiskey frauds carry us back to the flourishing times of revenue theft when Johnson was President. Let us | hope the operations of the rascals have been { effectually arrested. Spars aND THE Vrrorxivs,—It will be sean, from our correspondence elsewhere pub- | lished, that it is believed in Madrid that Mr. | Cushing has really made a demand for the | payment of an indemnity by Spain to the fam- ihes of the unfortunate victims of the San- 1 tiago massacre. The fact, confirmed from | Washington, that Mr. Fish has made such a demand will add largely to the | credit of his diplomacy. Recent publications show that the English government has de- | elared that it will be satisfied with nothing less than the payment of such an indemnity. It seems to us that the position held by the American government is as strong as that of the English, and we are gad that our State Department will assert it. The belief here- tofore entertained of the failure of our government to assert it bas given FE land influence in Spain that Avocrica is far from possessing, and at the same time has thrown Mr. Fish open to a eruel and, we are confident, groundless suspicion that in some way he is under a peculiar influence of the | Spanish government so far as Cuba”is com cormed, The Convicted Police Oommissioners— Are We Living Under the Law or in a State of Anarchy? Two of the members of the Police Board of this city, its President and its Secretary, have been tried on an indictment preferred by a grand jury, and after a fair trial before one of our ablest and most reputable judges have been found guilty of a misdemeanor in having wilfully violated a law which they were sworn to obey. For this crime the Court has im- posed upon them a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars each, and the fine has been paid. They might have been sentenced to imprison- ment, but the leniency of the Court—mis- placed, as some believe—bas spared them the more disgraceful punishment. If some poor wretch driven by poverty to crime had been before the Court on a charge of larceny or for the commission of some other offence, and his sentence had been made light on account of extenuating circumstances, nothing more would have been heard of the case. But as one of the convicted Police Commissioners hap- pens to be the President of the Republican Central Committee, and as the other is a shining light in ‘reform’ and ‘‘inde- pendent democracy,” we find the whole city _ stirred to its depths in an attempt to prove that | the verdict of the jury was unjust; that the | Court before which the offenders were tried was corrupt or incompetent, and that by some peculiar quality of this case it is taken out- side the pale of the law, which imposes certain penalties in addition to those embraced in the sentence for the offence that has been committed. The convicted men address a | letter in apparent seriousness to the Mayor of the city, resigning the offices of which the law has stripped them, and rearguing the case that has already been passed upon by an honest and intelligent jury. Mr. Gardner, one of the guilty officials, follows up this sin- gular epistle with attacks upon the character of the complainant who has brought him to justice; with gross abuse of the whole body of | inspectors of election belonging to the politi- cal party that is largely in the majority in the city of New York, and with unwarranta- ble insinuations against the Court, the jury and the prosecuting lawyers. He announces his determination to attempt the retention of the office which the laws declare he has tor- feited until his pretended “resignation” shall be accepted by the Mayor, and he impudently announces that his fellow crimi- nal is ‘a man of wealth and can make a big fight if necessary to maintain a princi- ple;"’ which principle is to cheat the law and maintain in the Police Commission two per- sons who have been found guilty of a misde- meanor on one indictment and against whom three other indictments are still pending. Outside the men who have subjected them- selves to the penalties of the law we find others prominent in the community attempt- ing to palliate these offences and striving by special pleas to turn aside the course of jus- tice. A United States Commissioner, who is by common report a standing candidate for a high position in the New York Police Depart- ment, as reported in a republican organ is in- decent enough to attribute improper motives to Judge Donohue, who referred to another Jus- tice of the Supreme Court the application for a request that the prosecution should be con- ducted by the Attorney General of the State, and to charge Judge Westbrook, who signed the application, with an offence sufficiently grave to demand his impeachment. Mr. Davenport is reported to have alleged that when the appli- cation to place the prosecution in the hands of the Attorney General was made to Judge Donohue that Judge declined to sign the order, in the fear that his action would be open to great criticism, but passed the application ‘to a country justice unfa- miliar with the case,” and advised him to sign it, and that the Justice in question—Judge Westbrook—affixed his signa- ture, although “ignorant of the facts."’ On the authority of the same organ we are in- formed that ‘‘it had been agreed upon before the Commissioners of Police sent in their resignations that such resignations would not be accepted by the Mayor, or if he did accept | them, that he would reappoint Messrs. Char- lick and Gardner.’’ We people of New York may understand in what direction the government of the city is drift- ing. Here is apparently a very plain, straight- forward case, affecting the public interests. Two officials are indicted for a wilful viola- tion of a law they were swortn to obey, are found guilty by a jury, are fined by the Court, and, in accordance with the clear provi- sions of the law, forfeit the offices they held. As a result of the nature of the corrupt compact which fastened the present incompe- tent and disgracetul administration on the city one of the convicted men is a prominent republican politician and the other a demo- crat, although of the stripe opposed to Tam- | many Hall. Although their offence is character we find every loud-tongued shrieker for reform and for the purily of the ballot box not only exciSing their crime, but disoassing with patience, and with an evident desire to see the outrage accomplished, the possibility of an evasion of the penalty for the offenco imposed by the law, and the probability of their retention in office or their reappointment by the Mayor. No reasonable Pétion can doubt that these convicted Police Commis- stoners areexpolled by the statute from the po- sitions they have disgraced and stripped of the trust they have betrayed. It is as certain that this penalty follows the offence of which they have been found guilty as that imprison- of a grave | ment follows a conviction for larceny or burg- | lary. It is just as much a quibble to pretend that Messrs. Gardner and Charlick have not violated their oath of office in disregarding and outraging the law for the protection of the ballot box as it would be to hold that a pickpocket who attempted to steal a pocket- | handkerchief was not guilty of grand larceny if he should by accident obtain possession of his victim's weil-filled pocketbook as well. The attempt to shield the offenders trom the penalty of their offence is only a part and par- cel of the system of government under which we now suffer, The whole fabric is based on dishonesty and built up with deception and fraud, There was no intention to secure trne reform on the part of any of the hucksters who partitioned the city government among themselves and their partisans two years ago. | We have now enjoyed nearly two years of the | recite these facts in order that the | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE, 30, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. period we have witnessed nothing but a dis- graceful succession of squabblings, bickerings and bargains among the hybrid crowd that has fastened itself on to the municipal treasury. The Mayor has sought to make a personal «perquisite of the city government, and his appointments, where they have not been controlled by political trading, have been dictated by personal friend- ships or interests. The consequence is that the chief magistrate of the city, instead of standing up as the champion of the law and of the public interests, is found striving to conceal beneath his official cloak the corrup- tions and illegal practices of his subordinates. ‘The Police Commissioners are not the only heads of departments who have rendered themselves amenable to the law. The prac- tices in the Department of Charities and Cor- rection are of no doubtful character. Sup- plies have been purchased in violation of law, and the city has been defrauded in the prices charged. A proper investigation would prove ‘‘irregularities’’ against some of the Commissioners as directly in conflict with the law as those crimes which have transferred Mr. Tweed to one of the institutions under control of the department. The Mayor is endeavoring to conceal these grave offences and to mislead the people by raising a side issue as to the expenses of for- mer years, just as he is rumored to be contemplating the championship of the convicted Police Commissioners, We are thus fast tending to a atate of anarchy or of official independence of all the restrictions of law. It is about time for Governor Dix to take these matters into con- sideration and to calmly examine the situation of affairs in the city. Any attempt on the part of the Mayor to uphold, justify or excuse the convicted ex-Police Commissioners in | their defiance of the law should be promptly checked by the Governor, if need be, by the suspension of the Mayor. Such an outrage would not only dangerously incense the citizens, but would be directly calculated to disorganize the Police Department and to convert the force maintained for the protection of the lives and property of the people into a lawless and licentious rabble, Foolish, in- considerate and stubborn as the Mayor is, he had better pause and reflect before he com- mits so serious an offence against propriety as that which he is reported to be contemplating. Why General Sherman Left Wash- ington. The letter of General Sherman to Secretary Belknap, just published, dated from the Headquarters of the Army at Washington, August, 1870, shows clearly the grievances of his position which led him to remove to St. Louis. He complains that as General of the Army he was interfered with by the Secretary of War, and that in matters over which he alone ought to have control, or at least over which none but the President, as the consti- tutional Commander-in-Chief, should have supervision. The letter, like everything from the pen of General Sherman, is clear, and shows the difficulty that has long existed on this question of divided authority. The General, no doubt, felt that the interference of the Secretary of War with what he believes to be his proper duties made it unpleasant and inconvenient to have his headquarters in Washington ; hence he got as far away from the War Department as he could to have his eye over the army. After all St. Louis seems to be the proper place for the headquarters of the army. The letter of General Grant, written in 1866, to Secretary Stanton is in accord with that of General Sherman. In fact, it may be said General Grant initiated the move- ment for having the powers of the General of the Army defined and independent of the Secretary of War. The difficulty has existed too long, and Congress should at an early day pass an act defining explicitly the functions of the Secretary of War as regards the army, and giving the General of the Army the full power that is necessary for the efficiency of the wervice. The Canadian Exodus. Some very patriotic Canadians desire to stop the flow of emigration to the United | States. "They are even anxious to coax those Canadians who have expatriated themselves to, return. Free passage home and grants of lands are proposed to prodigals to induce them to return. ‘The men who make these advances belong to the class of poetic patriots who can | never be made to feel the influences of such material blessings as liberty and prosperity on the opinions of mankind. Patriotism is all very well in its way, but to give it intensity | there must be outward antagonisms against | which a whole race has fought for centuries. | Mere geographical expressions do not create | countries, and without the sentiment of coun- try there can be no patriotism. On this Con- tinent there is but one country—America. All the local subdivisions, whether named Oanada or New York, are but portions of one great whole. By an accident certain districts of America are called ‘Mexico’ and ‘the Do- minigp;"". bat these mere ged, | graphical expressions, and will, sodher or later, be merged in the American na- tion, growing up under the protection of the Stars and Stripes. This fact is felt by the expatriated Canadians. They know that, whether in New Orleans or New York, they are ag much at home as though they were set- | tled im the vicinity of Quebec, They are Americans, and wherever the American flag waves they find their fatherland. Tho Con- vention of Canadians would have shown more wisdom had they recognized this fact and turned their meeting into an organization to bring about the early entrance of Canada into | the Union, which will be the fulfilment of her | “manifest destiny.’’ The subject of Canadian secession from the government of England to | the flag of the United States has assumed a degree of national importance in conse- quence of remarks which it elicited in the English House of Commons yesterday. Pre- mier Disraeli defended the loyalty and citizen honor of the people of the Dominion in words of general application. He was in bad | humor with the press paragraphists, evi- | dently on account of their endeavor to keep the idea of Canadian secession afloat. But great ideas are not to be frowned down—a fact which Mr. Disraeli knows better, per- haps, than any other man of the present age. OCuvron any Srare iy Genmany.—A cable despatch from London reports that the Ger- council at Fulda during the past week sent conciliatory proposals to the government in Berlin. It isto be hoped that the news is true, and, also, that the imperial government will be disposed to meet the offer of the prelates in a conciliatory spirit. The Revision of the Laws. The best act of the Congress which recently adjourned is one for which it has been the least praised. We mean the new code of the lawe of the United States, which has been finally adopted, and is now being printed in two volumes at the Government Printing Office, Every citizen of this country will shortly be able to possess the whole body of our statute law, showing the rights, liabilities and duties of the people, for a sum not exceed- ing five dollars. This great and beneficent work, which re- duces toa lucid and compact form the vast and complicated chaos of statutes which cover eighty-five years of time and fill seventeen bulky octavo volumes, has been completed by the labors of half a dozen men during the last eight years. The complete revision of the laws of the Republic, running from 1789 to 1874, eliminating all the obsolete or re- pealed statutes and recording only the law as it is, in a carefully digested form, was an en- terprise worthy of the most sagacious legal minds, To the late Charles Sumner the coun- try is largely indebted for the inception and fostering of this useful and liberal enterprise. The first Commission for the Revision and Consolidation of the Statate Laws of the United States was created by act of Congress approved June 27, 1866, and the appointees, who were to be three men learned in the law, were Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts ; William Johnston, of Ohio, and Charles P. James, of the District of Columbia. Mr. Cushing never did any sub- stantial work on the commission, being ab- sorbed in the labors of his extensive and lucra- tive practice as a lawyer and diplomatist. Judge Johnston remained in the commission only three years, during which he codified the patent laws and illuminated the general sub- ject of codification with frequent and copious dissertations. Judge James, who was the working man of the first commission, brought his powers of acumen and keen analysis to the work. But its progress was so slow that Congress appears to have tired of it, and at the end of the three years’ term of office of the first commission it was not renewed. After a year or two of precious time had thus been wasted Congress passed an act, in May, 1870, reviving the Commission for the Revision of the Laws for three years longer. President Grant appointed as members of the new commission Charles P. James, Ben- jamin V. Abbott, of New York, and V. M. Barringer, of North Carolina. The expertness of Mr. Abbott in digesting and editing legal works is widely known, while Mr. Barringer's attainments in jurisprudence if not conspicuous, were highly respectable’ These commissioners brought their labors nearly toa conclusion in March, 1873, when Congress placed the results they had accom- plished, being a revision of the United States Statutes at Large, reduced from seventeen to two printed volumes, in the hands of its own committees op the revision of the laws. These committees then employed Mr. Thomas J. Durant, of Washington, to revise and cor- rect the whole work, collating it with the ori- ginal statutes and reporting the result. This was done soon after the assembling of the late session of Congress. Mr. Durant’s revision, printed in one large volume, was then taken up by special order in a series of evening ses- sions in the House of Representatives. Here the work, which had previously undergone careful scrutiny by the Committee on the Re- vision of the Laws, of which Judge Poland, of Vermont, is the efficient chairman, was pro- ceeded with and amended. Members of the Bar in the House who took special interest in this important matter (among whom were Judge Hoar, of Massachusetts, Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, Mr. Knapp, of Illinois; Mr. Sayler, of Ohio; Mr, Pendleton, of Rhode Island) and others lent their aid to harmonize and perfect the code by amendment in its progress through the House. It should be carefully borne in mind that the only possible method of securing the success of the revision and its adoption by Congress was to confine it to an exact reproduction of the existing law, with- out amendment or alteration save to har- monize its provisiors, Any attempt to change the law on any subject whatever, much more to create a new code of laws for the gov- ernment of the United States, would not only have jeopardized the whole measure, but, from the amount of time and discussion involved, would have insured its certain defeat. Those familiar with the subject well know how many admirable codes, aiming at radical legal reforms, have been lost, after a great amount of time, labor and money had been expended upon them, through the disagreement of legislative bodies. That we now have the existing law of the United States arranged and codified ip 3 cieatly intelligible and adnie3aT fori Ys dad | to the wise persistency of a few men in Con- @tess. Among these is to be reckoned Senator Conkling, of this State, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Revision of the Laws, whose prudence and judgment saved it from becoming the subject of protracted wrangling in the Senate, _ At length, two weeks before the close of the fate session of Congress, the act formally adopting and legalizing the new revision of the laws had been passed through both houses ond awaited the signature of the President. But here a new dilemma arose. | The bulk of the statute was so extensive as to render it impossible for the engrossing clerks to enroll the bill in the regularly pre- scribed form for the Presidential signature, After much discussion and the appointment | of conference committees it was finally agroed | to have one copy of the act, with all the | amendments engrafted in the House, printed | at the Congressional Printing Office, which | Should be regarded as the officially enrolled copy of the act to be deposited in the archives | of the State Department. This was done. The | printed copy was duly signed by the Presi- | dent, and the people of the country will | speedily reap the benefit of this, the most | practical measure yet adopted by the Forty- | The value of such a code in third Congress. | diminishing the glorious uncertainties of the knowledge of our political institutions can “pelorm” ring rule, and during (he whole , man Catholic bishops who assembled in { hardly be over-estimated, { | law and in educating the people into a wider { England and Russia im the this time than the commercial problems springing out of the rivalries of England and Russia for the trade of Central Asia. Jealous- ies have long existed between the two coun- tries, the English being fearful of losing their commerce with India as the result of Russian aggression in Khokand, Khiva and Bokhars. For years these jealousies have prompted the English government to undertake many ab- surd measures in order to check the designs of the Czar and prevent too near a contiguity of Russian dominion to British India. A graphic picture of this peculiar diplomacy, together with a full account of the commer- cial designs of Russia in the East, is afforded in our London correspundence this morning on the Eastern question. It is true this chap- ter treats not of the cld Eastern question, once so familiar to everybody and yet so far from being understood by anybody, but of that newer question, which substitutes the railway for the caravan and diverts the trade of the East from its old and long established channels into other and cheaper courses. But, after all, Russia is not a commercial nation, and though she may build railroads into the very heart of the old civilization and exert political dominion all the way from St Petersburg to Samarcand, the people of other nationalities will come in to share with the subjects of the Czar whatever profit may be made out of the trade with Central Asia. Trade, like ideas, rans in a channel of its own, from which it cannot be successfully diverted, and it is becoming more and more the rule that it distributes its blessings with an even hand. England probably has nothing to fear from Russia in the East, and at most she can only lose her commercial supremacy in India. This, itis true, is one of the most grievous losses which could befall her ; but the English cannot expect to be for all time the shop- keepers and traders for the rest of the world, andin the next few years they will receive heavy blows from the industry and traftic of both the West and the East. Cremation Weather. When the thermometer reaches the nineties, according to the Fahrenheit measurement, Manhattandom groans and perspires and insists upon a record being made of each daring raid made by the Clerk of the Weather. Yesterday this much abused individual went far beyond his legitimate limits and crossed the line which separates New York summer weather from that of the tropics. Staid busi- ness people in a melting mood almost col- lapsed on reaching the vicinity of the Heratp office, where the thermometer at four o'clock in the afternoon indicated 101 degrees in the shade. The knowledge of such an exception- ally high state of temperature must neces- sarily lead to serious thoughts. Every one is obliged to succumb to some extent to this semi-cremation on the part of the weather, and the main question is how to avoid all fatal consequences. It is a notorious fact that the undue indulgence in ice water during the summer is a fruitful source of half the danger- ous diseases that prevail in this city trom June to September. Attention to the most ordinary sanitary rules and avoidance of excess in eat- ing or drinking, which in cooler weather may not be of such terrible results, wil! tend to im- munity from danger when the thermometer indulges in such tropical extravagances, Tse Crrr Bupazt.—Thanks to the firm stand taken by Messrs. Vance and Whecler in the Board of Apportionment, the new city budget has been finally cut down from $39,000,000 to less than $32,000,000. This reduces the rate of taxation from $3 40 per cent to $2 76, although the greater part of the reduction is not a saving to the tax- payers, but merely a ‘“‘bridging over’ from 1874 to 1875. The good work accomplished by Messrs. Vance and Wheeler reaches, how- ever, beyond this temporary lightening of the heavy load of taxation. It insures greater economy in all the departments in the future, a more strict accountability on the part of all city officials and a reformation of many of those abuses which have grown out of our in- considerate and deceptive financial policy. Two Turnos on the subject of ‘hydrophobia are repeated with some regularity by a large number of papers. One is that season makes no difference in the occurrence of this disease, | and the other is that it is less frequent in the summer than at any other time. For the lat- monotonous iteration, to statistics kept in France—because these are the only ones kept. These are cited as showing that the larger number of cases occur in the spring months | and the fewest in the summer. Would it be | too much to require that gentlemen should remember that we are not in France, and that | in the use of the words spring and sum- mer they are somewhat darkening counsel? With us the spring months are mostly cold, but in France they have in the spring months that very change of season and ; of fierce weather that we hava { ed Perhaps the eta mbes the same consequences in the two countries, though called spring in one and summer in the other. Anonymous Lerrens.—The latest Brooklyn scandal is in reference to the discovery of the authorship of certain anonymous letters to respectable citizens by a leading member of a | Brooklyn church. The writer has been ‘‘ex- communicated ;’’ but, as the Union well ob- serves, ‘‘too many families in this city to-day fre suffering from the effects of anonymous and obscene letters to allow a guilty man, when caught, to escape.” There is no offence against society so grave as this. It is bad enough when wounded vanity and mortified, disappointed ambition lead a man to distress hundreds of thousands by the unnecessary pub- lication of scandals that oppress and weaken the Christian heart; but when a ruffian, like an assassin in the night, wounds and kills reputation, and shrinks like a coward from the responsibility of the act, he sums up all crimes in the one crime, and should be hunted | from society like a poisonous snake or a dog | with the hydrophobia. Tue Ixprans Acarn.—According to our ‘news of this morning more trouble is threat- ened by the Indians. Two dead bodies have been found—the bodies, evidently, of buffalo | hunters-—not far from Adobe Walls. It is the at Camp Supply, that the Kiowas and Co- manches are moving north t@ depredate on ter point writers all refer, with somewhat | Bast. the settlements on the line of the Arkansas There are no more interesting questions at | Hiver. Aftor this warning it will be the fault of the government if the settlers suffer. Im all our dealings with the Indians there must be severity as well as fair play, Cuba—The Beginning of the End. In the Eastern Department of Cuba the Spaniards are preparing to abandon the small towns of the interior. They no longer imve the means of defending them from the enter. prises of the insurgents. This is a confession of incapacity to subdue the insurrection which we scarcely looked for from the Cuban authorities. If the proposed movement of re- treat be carried out it will hasten the end of the cruel war which has been waged now for well nigh six years. During that time both parties have stoutly disputed every inch of ground, the Spanish soldiers displaying ex- traordinary tenacity. They.are now, however, weary of an aimless war, in which neither glory nor profit can be gained. Some few chiefs manage te become rich, but for the mass of the army. there is little but privation and wounds to be looked forward to. The abandonment of the interior would be a great advantage to the Cubans. It would enable them to thoroughly ofganize their govern- ment and strengthen the Mambi colonies which have been formed in the forests. Spain is surely loosening her grasp. It would be better for her own interests and those of hu- manity if she could be induced to do so with- out further useless effusion of blood. Evenat this late day Cuba would be willing to pay @ large indemnity as the price of her liberty. The money could be used by the Republio in putting down Carlism and restoring the Span- ish finances, It would be much wiser to ao- cept this solution than to go op spending - blood and treasure in a hopeless struggle. Parcuep THorovcurares.—The condition of our thoroughfares at present, apart even from all sanitary considerations, is sufficient to create a feeling of disgust against our present municipal authorities. Avonues lead- ing to the Park have become pitfalls for those who wish to indulge in driving, and we regret to say that below Central Park there is nota place where a gentleman can trust a horse and wagon for the space of o block. The wooden pavements are simply frightful, and the patching business which now prevails makes matter worse. Seventh avenue may be termed a series of excavations, where no one can drive without imminent danger of a foundered horse and broken wagon. Sixth avenue is no better. Fifth avenue is eo in- vaded by building contractors that locomotion becomes very disagreeable, and in Lexingtom avenue, the only driving place left, ruts like wells exist, and considerable care must be exercised even at a walk. We want a driving place to the Park sacred from the intrusions of trucks and ice wagons. Persons owning valuable horses and turnouts have now se- lected stables in the vicinity of Central Park. What is the Department of Public Works doing? A “Covenant.”—It is an interesting point in this painful and loathsome Beecher affair {o remember that Mr. Tilton on one occasion signed a document in which he said: — I, Theodore Tilton, do, of my free will and friendt; spirit toward Henry (. Bowen and Henry Ward Beecher, hereby covenant and agree that I wilt never again repeat, by word of mouth or other- wise, apy of the allegations or imputations or inna- endoes Contained in any letter hereunto annexed, or any other injnrious tmputations or allegations suggested by or growing out of these; ana thas E wild’ never again bring up or hint at any cause of difference or ground of complaint heretofore ex- isting between the said Henry C. Bowen and my- self or the said Henry Ward Beecher. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Count Hatzfeld was in Paris on the 16th, Burnside has not yet taken “Little Rhody.” Marcus Anntus Cusius Dentatus is toothsome. AS tor the post office man, Twain owes him ona. Horner didn’t say it was ‘half foreign” the last time. Carpenter—the man with the gag law—is uot at Long Branch. Captain J. W. Reilly, of West Point, is quartered at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Horner will ‘give’ picnics to poor chilaren 6 the public will furnish the money. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, 18 60- journing at the New York Hotel. fix-Sehator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, {a staying at the Hofman House. “The body of a man, aged about twenty-five,” w very prevalent—mostiy in the water. State Comptroller Jonn C. Charch, of Tennessee, is stopping at the Fifth Avenae Hotel. Congressman William Loughridge, of lowa, ts registered at the Grand Central Hotel. Hon, W. C, Howells, the new United States Con- su! at Quebec, has arrived in that city. Major General J. U. Scott, of the British Army, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Lieutenant Commander Ubarles McGregor, United States Navy, 1s at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, Sefior Don Emilio Benard, Minister tor Nicaragua at Washington, has arrived at the Clarendon fotel, Congressman James N. Tyner, of Indtana, ar- rived from Washington yesterday, at the Gileey House. itis a great admission that Beecher doesn’t read the articles in the papers about it. ‘Thus con science does," &c. M. Mansard, Bonapartist, writes on the plébisctte. He 1s provably the person with whom they ia- tended to “crown the edifice.” The Shet Lit of lay coynty, Missouri, values nis répitation at $100,000, It id doubtful if he can get the money; but he ts suing for it. Some veople doubt the truch Of the report that Butler intends to train a brigade oY skunks to “an- swer’’ his critics In the next session, Congressman Hugh J. Jewett, of Ohio, Prestdent- elect of the Erie Railway Company, is among the recent arrivals at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Turtles found in the woods with the names of the éarly settlers carved on them are now ta season, They furnish a regular income to the in- nocent rastie. At Chew Magna, Somersetsbire, Fngiane, they had an ¢arthqnake—not equal to the one on Bala Mountain, though at the latter place they only chew fine cat, M. Dethili de Fontreal apologized to tne Lord Mayor of London for having challenged Mr. Dick, of No, 17 Change alley. Jn London they do not be- lieve in ‘settling accounts” that way. “gatan may vent his sharpest spite and atl his legions roar’ was what they sung at Beecherts church on Sunday. Leave them alone for “getting even’ with a fellow like Satan. Rev. William N. Clagget, pastor of a Presbyteriam church In Lonisville, Ky., nas resigned, as ts stated, because one of his elders persisted in retaining his position as bookkeeper In a liquor store aiter remonstrance. All the country papers say the HeraLp 1s (os sale, which {8 true; and one who writes for a Troy paper says that we keep it up in first rate style tm order that it may sel better, This Is true, also ‘The price ts still tour cents for a single copy. A timid man wants to know “how to tell a mad dog.’ We don't know what he wants to tell bim, but the safest way would be to communicate with the dog in writing. Send the letter (rom a gun in the shape of wadding, followed by smalt shot te ‘ | see if he geta it. —New Orleans Republican, opinion of Colonel Brooke, now edmmanding | Ii the occurrence of important eveuts of recent date ts to be communicated, drop a line to the usual Way, With the noose at le end, ; ¥ t