The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1874, Page 5

THE INDIAN OUTBREAK. General Custer’s Movement Into the Black Hills. THE SIOUX GROWING RESTLESS. Number and Positions of Our Troops on the Frontier. The Quaker Indian Commissioners Returning. THE ATTACK OF THE 4TH. OMAHA, July 16, 1874. Indian affairs are very closely watched by the Yesidents of this city, and every movement on the part of the military guarding the frontier line is freely discuased and criticised. The State of Ne- braska has some very troublesome residents on its Borthwest border, and, naturally, the residents of Omaha, the principal city in the State, feel anxious that their red friends at the Red Cloud and Spotted ‘Tail agencies should be treated in equity and good faith, The recent movement of General Custer with a large armed force into the Black Hills coun- try is looked upon by the old sevtlers of Omaha as an outrage and a direct breach of the treaty made with the Sioux some years ago. They also claim that it is an outrage upon the settlers of the State of Nebraska, as it will excite the Indians and lead to A BORDER WAR, that can only result in a series of massacres and the destruction of a large area of the farming coun- try in the northwestern portion of their State. The counties of Greeley, Howard, &c., have lately become pretty closely settled, and lie between the Pawnee reservation and the Sioux country, so that should the latter take the warpath they will be | likely to make a dash for their old enemies, the Pawnees, and spread desolation through the fron- Mer settlements they will have to pass through, The only protection to that section of the country is the camp on Loup Fork, a post about 100 miles Bortheast of North Platte, and garrisoned by one company of the Ninth infantry. WHAT AN OLD RESIDENT THINKS, Iwas talk'ng yesterday with an old resident of | this State, and he observed that if Congress were #0 anxious to cut down the strength of the army they should certainly carry out the peace policy, instead of making an aggressive movement into a country that, by treaty, they have conceded and agreed to protect. If the Sioux determine to op Pose Custer’s march, which they probably will do, | the latter will have all the fighting he wants, and all farming and progress on the frontier line must cease, as the settlers will have to take refuge in the more thickly popniated districts, THE SIOUX LIKELY TO PROVE TROUBLESOME. In order to give some definite idea of the duties and stations of troops in the frontier countries I paid a visit yesterday to General Ord, who com- mands the Department of the Platte and has his headquarters in this city. I had a pleasant talk of | over an hour, during which time General Ord and his aide-de-camp, Major Brown, afforded me ali the Becessary information. General Ord appears to think that the Sioux are likely to prove trouble- some this seuson, and anticipates quite a lively tame for the TROOPS STATIONED ON THE FRONTIER. Consequently he has stationed the main portion of bis command at the agencies and Fort Lara- mie, 80 as to form a line that will protect the iron- tier lines of Nebraska and Wyoming. At Fort | Laramie there is a flying column of six companies of the Seconda cavairy, and five companies of the Fourteenth infantry that are kept in read- iness t© Move at & moment’s pdice, 0 that should a party of Sioux make a raid from the Black Hills country there will be a force ready to check their advance. The partment of the Platte comprises the States of wa and Nebraska and the Territories of Wyoming and Utah. There at present about 3,000 troops im the department, belonging to the Second ana Third earning, and the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Thir- ‘teenth aud Fourteenth iniantry, The troops are | Btationed as follows:— TROOPS STATIONED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE. Omaha Barracks, Neb., two companies Ninth infantry, General King. Fort MePherson, Neb., two companies Third cavalry, Captain Moore. (nn Neb., one company Third cavairy, Cap- in Mills. aoe Fork, Neb., one company Ninth infantry, Captain junson. Sidney Barracks, Neb., two companies Third cavalry, Major Dudley. led Cloud Agency, Neb., one company Third cavalry | and two companies Ninth infantry, Captain Jordan. tted Tail Agency, Neb.. one company Third cavalry jour companies Ninth infantry, Maior Townsend. D. nssell, Wy. T., two companies Third cav- eneral Reynolds. six companies Second cavairy and: five companies Fourteenth infantry. Major Blunt. Fort Sanders, W; ‘one company Second cavalry and one company Fourteenth ‘infantry, Colonel Palmer. Fort Fred steele, Wy. T., one compaty Thirteenth in- | fantry, Lieutenant Colonel Bradley. Fort Bridger, Wy. T., two companies Fourth infantry, Colonel Flint, Camp Stambaugh, Wy. airy, and one compatiy Camp Brown, Wy. T., one company Second, cavalry and one company Thirteenth infanury, Captain Torrey. ‘Camp Douglas, Utat, four companies Thirteenth inian- try and one company Fourth infaniry, Lieutenant Col- onel Morrow. Fort Cameron, Utah, four companies Fourteenth infan- try, Lieutenant Colonel Wood ard. ‘ort Fetterman, Wy. T.. one company Third cavalry and iwo companies Fourth infantry, ‘Major Chambers, THE FORTS AND CAMPS, The above forts have been placed with a view to protecting the Union Pacific Railroad and the fron- ter settlers, Along the line of railroad startin, from the east there are Omaha Barracks, For McPherson, North Platte, Sidney Barracks, Fort D. A. Russell, Fort Sanders, Fort Fred Steele, Fort Bridger (twelve miles south of Carter station), and Camp Douglas at Salt Lake City. The camp on Loup Fork 1s situated about 100 miles northeast of North Platte, and was built with @ view to guarding the Pawnee reservation from the attacks of hostile Sioux. Fort Laramie, one of the most important posts in the department, is situated 1a the southeastern portion of the Biack Hills ana about ninety miles north of Laramie City. tis close to Laramie Peak, the highest point tn the Black Hilla, and about 150 miles south of that por- tion of the country which General Custer proposes | to explore, It is estimated that there are at | eepere about 3,000 Sioux warriors in the Black tile, belonging chiefly to the Minneconjong and alialas, ‘ne agencies are situated on White ver. @ tributary Of the Missouri, and both lie 10 the northeast of Fort Laramie, Hed Cloud Agency fs about ninety miles northeast of Fort Laramie, and Spotted Tat) fifty miles further on the same line. Fort Briager, Cs! built by the trapper of that name as a depot for the fur trade, {8.10 cated twelve miles south of Carter’s station. It ‘was occupied sixteen years ago by Joe Jolnston | gud is now garrisone oy two companies of the Fourth infantry. Fort Cameron is a large post near Beaver City, about 220 miles south of Salt | Lake City, established as a check upon the Nava- joes and Southern Utes. Camps Stam- gh and Brown are situated in about the wildest portion of the department and bave always had considerable troubie from hostile Indians. Camp Stambaugh ts located 106 miles north of Bryan station and twelve miles north of the South Passin the Rocky Mountains. Camp Brown is further to the northwest and situ- ated near Wind River. During the Fee five or six | ears she Indians in the neighborhood of Forte rown and Stambaugh have committed at least ‘twenty murders, killing men, Women and children | ‘Whenever they came across them unprotected by | the military. In consequence of these Ly coma Outrages orders were sent to Captain trey, Thirteenth infantry, commanding post at Fort | Brown, to take immediate measures to punish these murderers. The news of the attack made on July 4 has already been telegraphed, and the par- ticulars will be found in the folowing report re- ceived yesterday by General Ord. TRE ATTAOK OF THE 47H. Hrsapquaztens, Caur Brown, Wy. T., July 7, 1974 Assrerant “ApsUTANT GuNxBAL, 'DuraRtuent OF THe Parte, Oxana:— Ihave the honor to submit herewith a preliminary report of the operations against the Indiins, undertaken from this post, under verbal authority of the depart+ ment commander, given July 1, 1876. ‘A full report, with sketch of the country operated In, | ‘Will be prepared and forwarded as soon as practicable, ‘The expedition compored of Company B, Second, cavalry, twenty Indian scouts, under command of Lieutenant Young, Fourth infantry, with 17 Shoshone Indians and four citizens as auxiliaries. The command Jett this post about dark on the Ist inst., and, marching uly at night, struck the Indian village at daylight on the morning of the éth inst. The attack was made at iS renultlog in the Capture of the village, the Killin owe numb of ordag" we enemy and thé capture of Owing to the failure of the Shoshones to perform tli: all the evening to obtain possession Part allotted to them in ue high sandstone biof, the key of the position, the T., one company Second cay- Thirteenth iniantry, Captain Which made a thostadmirable portion for de- fence and commanding the viliaga tho Indians trom this ort, in W minutes inflicted severe joss upon the at- in Bator ther withdrew bis men re and observing signal | to get any assistance bla? occupied by the a) he could not curry 1 with allies to car hostile forges, and serine | Known. Fort NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEBRT. his own men, except with heavy loss, and also fearing to reduce bis smmunition low when 60 tar into the dangerous country, he withdrew his torces and beg:n his yetery march, reaching the mouth of the Little Wind River, without molestation, about sundown ‘of the Sth, when ho was et by Captain Tor about thirty men (all told) and provided with amba- fances lies for the wounded. ‘ihe whole com- Bang arrived amfved at camp about three o'clock FM, of the it. ‘The village contained 111 or 113 lodges, and was located Qn the north side of the eastern end of the Owl Creek Mountains, distant by shortest practicable route about distance actually marched going out, puts, was about 115 or 12) miles. mm gi net 9 ing been taken. ad among the lodges, upon the ‘opposing treating up the side of the bluffs to where they made a stand, ‘Our loss was two men in Company B killed, Lienten- ant Young and men of Company B wounded, one severely; two Shoshones killed and two wounded. 6 wound of Lieutenant Young is in the leg, above the knee, and is not serious. Ail the officers, Acting Asslst- ant burgeon Mauhee, and the men of Company B, be- haved with great gullantry, Also the citizens, one of who, Mr. Cassgroon, was, I think, the means of sav- ot Washakie over 20) bi warriors were counted 4 known that large lose was inflicte despatch, pon' ith the he and & party is Indi- al Lieutenant Young trom falling into Uie hands ot the ane The Indians attacked appear to have been muinly Arapahoes and Cheyennes, with some Sioux. ‘One of the horses stolen last Vear from near this post waa among the captured. I am, sir, very Fesveotially, » Captain Thirteenth Infantry Commanding Post OUR INDIAN ALLIES, From the above report it would appear that our Indian allies were 01 comparatively uttle use, fail- ing to do the duty assigned to them. HOW OUR TROOPS ARE EMPLOYED. The cavalry in this department are kept pretty busy scouting Mesongh the gannsry, especially those stationed near Forts Stambaugh, Brown and Fetterman. The Twenty-third iniantry, General Jeff C. Davis, are on their way to this depart. ment from Arizona, and will probably arrive in two or three weeks, The Eighth iniantry then leave and goto Arizona. General Davis will take command at Omaha barracks, releving General King, who is under orders for Fort Laramie, Another Account of the Attack on the Indian Camp and Severe Punishment of the Warriors. WAsHINATON, July 20, 1874, The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received a report irom Agent James Irwin, of the Shoshone and Bannock Agency, giving the particulars of the attack upon the Indian camp by Captain Boles, with Company E, Second cavairy, on the 2d inst., an account of which has already been telegraphed by General Sheridan to the War Department. Agent Irwin says:— This js no doubt the most punishment they ever received, but they have brought it upon themselves and richly deserve it. it 18 bara to tell what may follow. If they can get sufficient reiniorcements they may give us a severe visit be- fore the snow flies. I would respectfully suggest that, in the interest o1 humanity and civilizauon, these Indians be compelled to go aud live on their reservation. The Quaker Indian Commissioners—The Trouble Caused by Whiskey Traders and Horse Thieves—Santanta and Big Tree Peaceable. Sr. Lours, July 20, 1874. Messrs. Hobbs, of Indiana; Earl, of Massachu- setts; Taber, of New York; Rhodes, of Philadel- phia, and Johnson, of Cincinnati, members of the Quaker Commission which bas control of the In- dian policy, and who recently have been to Law- rence, Kansas, to examine into the conduct of their agent, J. F, Miles, arrived here yesterday, en rouie bome. They say that from 100 to 150 Cheyennes, Arapahoes and a few Comanches coa- stitute all the ludians now on the warpath in the Southwest, and belonging wholly to wud tribes, The late disturbances and cruelties have grown out of the fact that white buffalo hunters and whiskey sellers have frequently come into the In- dian Territory and alter making the Indians drunk have stolen their ponies and escaped, and | have otherwise violated the treaty stipwiations with these Indians, The chiefs of these tribes have patiently endured these oit repeated and unre- dressed wrongs; but some of their ambitious oung men, stung by tue tardiness of redress, ave takeu the punisnment of these people into their own hands, and have shown much cruelty and committed excesses in return. The Commissioners say that Santanta and Big Tree, who were so long confined in the ‘'exas Peni- tentiary, are true to their promise and mamtain a peaceable course in good Jaith, Seven Cavalrymen Against Twenty-five Indians—No Loss of Life. WASHINGTON, July 20, 1874. The following despatch was received this morn- ing at the headquarters of the army :— CuicaGo, lil, July 18, 1874. Colonel W. D. WHIPPLI Asmall detachment, consisting of a corporal and six nen, while guarding a haying party near Fort Fetterman, was attacked by about twenty-tive In- dians, but sustained no less. P. HM, SHERIDAN, Lteutenant General. CASUALTY AT SOUTH NORWALK, gata a ed eles A Well Known Steamboat Captain Drowned—Detuails of the Accident—Re- covery ot the Body. Sovra NorwALk, Conn., July 20, 1874, Late Saturday evening the litule steamer Flirt, Captain F. B. Smith, which runs regularly between this city and Roton Point, conveying excursionists during the hot weather, was returning from the latver place. When of what is known as Round Beach and within hailing distance of Gregory’s Point the steamer’s awning caught fre. Captain Smith | first discovered it and tried to pull the awning down. Failing, water, dashed it on the flames, and while in the | act of filling a second bucket the steamer swayed, he lost his balance, tell into the water AND WAS DKOWNED, Few persons were on the boat at the time, but these were nade to comprehend the terrible po- sition of affairs, Tne bout was stopped and an effort made to recover the uniortunate man, but in vain, The steamer went on her way and reached the wharf without him, when the sad occurrence ‘was narrated. News ol the drowning spread like wildfire, tor the Captain was everywhere well boats were manned and equipped, and proceeded to Round Beacn to drag tue river. They continued throughout the night, not ceasing the task fora moment, Sunday morning the force was increased to sixty boats and men, who kent on the work of dragging all day. Toward night Wiliam Lockwood and John Martin, who were in @ boat together, succeeded in bringing the body to the surface by means of a trollin; line with fishhooks at the end, It was conveyer to South Norwalk, where an inquest was held in the presence of at least 2,000 people, so great had the excitement become. Though in the water only twenty-four hours the clothing ol decease was filled with starfish, which had eaten the desh | in many places and destroyed the leit eye. Captain Smith was thirty-eight years of age and leaves a wile and five children. He was promi- nently known throughout the State as a politician. ‘The funeral will occur to-morrow, at St. Paul's Eptscopal church, Key. Dr. Mead, D. D., and the burtal in St. Paul’s churchyard. ATTEMPTED RUBBERY AND MURDER, Benjamin Tann, a colored Taigned before Judge Murray yesterday, at Jeffer- son Market, charged with a felonious assault and battery on the person of James McGuire, of No. 226 West Houston street. About half-past one o'clock yesterday morning Oflicer Hudson, of the Eighth precinct, while patrolling his post on | Broome street, heard cries of “Help,” “Murder”? and “Police” proceeding from an open iof in South Fifth avenue, near the corner of Broome street. Oficer Hudson on arriving at the spot from which vhe cries came found two men strug, gling with each other in a fierce hand to han encounter, They were both on the ground, ba! the Cae gt man. who is well known in that vicinity as a desperate character, was endeavoring to beat the other’s brains out with a large paving stone. Belore the ofiicer could separate the com- batants the undermost man, James McGutre, was id out insensible irom the effects of the wounds received, Benjamin Tann, the assailant, was placed under arrest, and the wounded man was also taken to the station house, where his wounds were dressed by the surgeon in attendance, As soon a8 McGuire recovered conscioushess he explained to the Sergeant how the attack was made, He said he was walking past this open space when he was suddenly caught hold of and dragged into the lot. He struggled as best he could, but was knocked down by one biow of the stone which was in the negro’s hands. While on the ground his assailant tried to rob nim, he (McGuire) still making a determined resistance, he was again struck repeatedly with the stone on the head, Benjamin Tann was held in $2,000 bail to answer at General Sessions, A SMALL LINE OP SAMPLES, {From the Detroit Journal of Commerce.} Amember of the Saginaw County Bar was re- cently in one of our thriving interior towns on pro- fessional business, In the office of the hotel he was accosted by a very agreeable gentleman, evi- dently of the genus drummer, who wanted to know “where he was irom.” “From Detroit.’ ‘The next question was, “Kor what house are you travelling?” “My own.” “You are. May I ask your name?’ “You may.” Pause—enjoyable to vhe lawyer, embarrassing to the other, “Well’’ (desperately) What !8 your name?” “Jones,” “What line are you in?’ “I don’t understand you, sir.’ “What are you sellingy” (impatiently). “Brains” (coolly). The drummer saw his oppor- tunity, and jooking at the other irom head to foot he said, slowly, ‘Well, you Ld to carry a very smali tine of sampl Blackstone says he owes that drummer one. he seized a bucket filled with | Individual, was ar- | TAMMANY'S TERRORS, The Charges Against Little Johnny Daven- port—Formal Accusations To Be Made Be- fore the United States Circuit Court— The Way Jimmy O’Brien and Johnny Had Their Election Affidavits Made Out. Although the Mayor was unable to create any excitement yesterday in the matter of the charges preferred against him by John Keily & Uo. by making public his answer to the Governor’s kind little reminder of a note sent to him some time ago, the politicians were not at a total loss for something to talk about, The theme was the probable fate that is in store for little Johnny Dav- enport. It seems that Judge Woodruff desires that the charges preferred against Jonnny should be presentea before the United States Circuit Court, and as they will be formally pre- sented by Colonel Wingate in a tew days, it is sate to say that there is good promise of very lively times ahead in polit- leal circles, Quite @ commotion was created among the Custom House politicians and the hangers-on of what is left of the Apollo Hall tem- ple by the rumor that Jimmy O’Brien, the ex- Sheriff, had been indicted for subornation of per- jury. The rumor was not well founded; but it is stated on pretty good auth mty that charges as to this alleged crime of his will be preferred in a day or two, It would seem that Tammany is deter- mined to make @ clean sweep of every man who, in his attempt to deieat her last election, resorted to illegal methods, thus coupling with the attempt to Kill Tammany a crime against the whole people. The tollowing letter was yesterday sent to Johnny Davenport, accompanying the charges which are appended to tt:— New York, July 20, 1874, Commissioner Jonn I. DAVENPORT :— Deak Sik—In pursuance of your request I send ‘ou herewith a copy of the papers sent by me to Judge Woodratt, As Judge Woodruff has expressed his desire that that ter should take the shape of charges preferred to the Circuit Court, I shall, at as early a day as practicable, prepare format charges and specificauions, of the filmg of which you will be duly notided, Very respectfully, ‘OKGE W. WINGATE, THE CHARGES, New York, July 9, 1874, Hon. Lewis B. WoopRruF Sur—The undersigned, in transmitting herewith | for your examination the testimony taken in the | proceedings aguinst Olver Cnaruck, desire to call | your special attention to pages 53, 60, 67, 104, 111, 168, 173, 190 and 200, establishing the connection between the proceedings of John I. Davenport, as Commissioner of the United States Circuit Court apd Supervisor of Elections, and the frauds and tilegal acts shown to have been committed at the last election. It will be | Observed that the parties arrested on false charges by this Commissioner were all arrested In a single Assembly district (the Eighteenth), known to be controlled by ex-Sheriff O’Brien (although in one cause, John Doran, page 171, there was uo candl- date jor Congress running in the district in which he was charged with being an offender) ; that these arrests were made upon the morning of election, leaving vacancies which were im all cases con- veniently filled by a person in political opposition to the inspector thus arrested, and that no steps have sipce been taken by the Commissioner to further prosecute the cases, his reply to Patrick H. Maguire (one of the parties thus wrongiully ar- | rested), on inguiry (page 203, 1olio 728), being “that te would take {t ub—when he got ready.”” ‘Lhe proof of the political connection between ex- Sherif O'Brien and Commissioner Davenport ap- pears in the affidavit of ThomasJ, Dunphy, also transmitted herewith, which gives a striking view of the manner in which he 1s in the havit of per- forming bis judicial functions. Your attention 1s also particularly called to the case of George A. Heinrich, as appearing in the hewspapers of the city, and particulariy in the World and Sun, trom October 21 to November 1, 1872, Inclusive, as well a8 shown by the papers on file upon the motion granted by Judge Benedict, October 8, 1873, dismissing the charge. Here was a case of a 1esponsible and respectable citizen, at the worst only charged with refusing to tell his age to a Marshal who called at his nouse to verily the registry. being arrested by order of Commis- sioner Davenport and committed without bat, altnough tendering the best of bail, and, finally, alter several days’ !mprisonment, was released on giving $5,000 bail, His eXamination was conducted in an exceedingly arbitrary manner by the Com- missioner, who occupied at once the position of | public prosecutor and judge, and was postponed, as he saw fit, irom time to time, until tinally— nearly a year alrerward—the charge was dismissed by Judge Benedict lor sailure to prosecute it. It is also to be observed that the marshal making the complaint received his credentiais at the nead- facia ola political organization, and that be- fore testilying he talked the case over with the Commissioner. Attention is particularly called to | the irregular reasons sated in the affidavit of the Commissioner hunself as to nis not prosecuting this case alter the election, and to his statement in such afidavit that he would act im the same way under similar circumstances, In the cases of Charies Hussey, Jeremiah Keeley and Francis Healy, published in the papers of the same date, the same arbitrary conduci on the part of the Commissioner is exhibited. In addition to any particular evidence that may be specified, 1¢ is @ lact Known to all that Commissioner Daven- port 18, and has been for a jong time, am active and bitter politica: partisan in all matters apper- | taining to this city and State, and he has been prominent in the different party movements | taking place either in the Legislature at Albany or in Congress, as well as tn ‘this city itself, as tne | representative of a certain political taction, government of the country. are conceded, it must be admitted, on the o:her hand, that in the case of officers occupying judicial positions, and particu- larly where such Judicial positions are intimately connected with the management and control of elections, that to retain public confidence in the administration of justice by them as weil as by the Courts who control them, tt 1s indispensable that they should s0 conduct themselves as to be tree from ali suspicion of partiality, unfairness or par- usausnip. It 1s respectfully submitted that Commissioner John I, Davenport has not only fatied to do tais, but that ne 18, and is universally considered to be, & man Who uses the powers vesied in him as United States Commissioner and Chief Supervisor of Eleo- tions for partisan and political pep eped that no one has any confidence in his fairness or impartial- ity as a judicial oMcer; ana that his character and conduct, together with public opinion thereof, are such as to make it necessary, lt the dignity of the Cireuit Court of the United States tor the Southern District of New York is to be sustained, that he | should be removed trom his position. We transmit these papers to you in this way for such action as you may deem the facts require, considering it more proper that the character of | the action to be taken should be leit to you than We should appear in the character of prosecutors of Mr. Davenport. At the same time we are per- jectly ge 1 it be desired, to accept that respon- sibility, Very respectiully, OSWALD OTTENDORFER, No. 7 East Seven- teenth street, GEORGE A, HEINRICH, No. 155 East Third reet. GEORGE F, LANGBEIN, No. 70 Seventh street, AMUS F, ENO, No. 233 Filth avenue. PALRICK H. MAGUIRE, No, 243 East Thirty- second street. JOMUN DORAN, No. 232 East Twenty-seventh SOHN B. LEWIS, No. 303 East Thirtieth street. ANDREW J. HAGGERTY, No. 401 East Thirty- fourth street. A PRECIOUS SET OF OATH TAKERS. United States af America, Southern District of New York, 88.—Thomas Dunphy, of the city of New York, counsellor-at-law, being duly sword, Says that dui- ing the canVass of 1871, in the faliand afew days before the November election, deponent was sent for to go wo the Jackson Club, corner of Lexington avenue and Thirty-third street, by Mr. James O’Brien; that on deponent’s arrival he found the place full, said O’Brien and one. John 1. Daven- port, United States Commissioner, being among the number, and the folding of tickets proceeding; tnat after deponent’s arrival Justice B, H. Bixby came in; that to deponent’s best recollection this was on Satarday belore the Nevember election; that on deponent’s arrival he was requested by said O’Brien to draw amMdavits for two persons then present—one named Patrick, but who is sometimes called “Gallows Pat,” and Barney McGaifey, on some charge against one O'Neil and one Groghan for violation of the election laws of the United States. That the statement on which the afMidavits were made were, as deponent now recoliects, on the statement of O’Brien ; that deponent drew attl- davits and Patrick Gaffney signed and swore to them before Davenport. Deponent was then requested to be at the satd club the following day (Sunday). Deponent did on the said Sunday, and went in a carriage with Gaffney, Patrick a above named, and James Keegan, to the office of the said Davenport, No. 19 Union square, and there two afidavits were drawn (by the airection of per- sons who stated that these men would make afidavits about violation of the election laws) by the deponent, who drew the aMdavits, and when — they ere to be sworn to, deponent found that said above named, signed one of the affidavits under another and different name from that used the prior day, and said Keegan also signed. That one Hickey was there and asked to see an am- davit which he was to sign, and Hickey came to deponent and asked what it was about, Depo- nent told him it was to arrest O'Neil, Croker and others, He said be had nothing against Croker and for aepunent to get O’Brien to let him off making an affigavit, and he did not make one, That when Keegan was first sgome to swear to his aiidavit he desired to do it under ap assumed mame. so that While the rights of all men to participate in the | ‘atrick ———, | Croker should not find it out. Deponent ad- vised him not to do #0, and the al taken in his own name. That the whol ings were, as deponent understoud, to precede the arrest Of active political parties to prevent their being out on election day to aid their party. THOMAS DUNPHY. Sworn to before me this 24th day of March, 1874— Kenneru G, WuiTs, United States Commissioner. It was again rumored last night that serious charges are to be preferred against United States District Attorney Bliss, The statement made yes- terday by his assistant, Purdy, that ‘itis @ prac- tice not to permit a witness to go into the Grand | Jury room without the consent of the Vistrict At- torbey,” and that on one occasion, when a Wit- ness “slipped” into the room during his (Purdy’s) absence, he told the Grand Jury they had ‘uo right” to listen to him, was quite severely com- mented upon. There are a good many people who would like to know who invested tue Uitited States District Attorney or any one else with the right to “permit”? or to prohibit auy witness Irom appear- ing belore the Grand Jury, id > CREEDMOOR, 2 The Eleventh Regiment, N.G.S.N.¥., at te National Rifle Range Yesterday— Splendid Weather and Steady Practice. The Eleventh regiment, N.G.8.N.Y., Colonel Vilmar commanding, proceeded to rifle practice at Creedmoor yesterday. ‘The line of march was through Grand street to Peck slip ferry, and thence by boat to Hunter's Point, reaching Creed- moor by rail before ten o’clock, soon alter which hour firmg commenced at the 200 yards range. Ball practice was kept up until after one o'clock, ‘When the men who had qualified went back to the 500 yards range to shoot their second scores, By reference to the scores, which are given below, tt will be seen that, all things considered, the Eleventh made reasonably good shooting. It te but justice to the ofticers and men to state that, for steadiness and discipline under arms, togetner with a gdod knowledge ot the details of fleld duty, ths corps has not been surpassed, if equalied, by THE PUBLIC PARKS, The Action of the Board of Apportion- ment on the Appropriations. Messrs. Vance and Wheeler’s Statement. eee An Opinion by the Assistant Cor- poration Counsel. Mr. H, G, Stebbins, President of the Department of Parks, baving addressed severai letters to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in reter- ence to the action of the said Board in providing that the salaries of certain officers and employés of the Park Department be paid from appropria- tion from taxations Mr, Samuel H. B. Vance, Presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen, and Mr. John Wheeler, Tax Commissioner, yesterday submitted the following statement explaining their action to Mr, Stebbins :— New York, Jul, HENRY G. STEBBINS, Esq., President Public Parks :— Sir—It is not our intention to enter into any controversy with you as to the action of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in revising the estimate of the Department of Public Parks jor the year 1874, and were {t not Jor he matters which have been specially brought to our notice in relerence Lo this appropriation we would not even refer to the subject jurther than is contained in the official action of the Board, 20, 1874, epartment any other tnat has preceded it to the rifle butts during the present season. TUE scores, Private Marschultz, Co, Names, Furds, Scores, —~ Sergeant Klenup, Co. C...+.} 3y} frie Private Bmiither, Co. ©...... } 2) 3 § 4 Captain Pohler, Co. Fs... 130 022 | Sergeant Lingler, Co. I...... Heed aoe Private Ruland, Co, B 10 pag Lieutenant Adler, Co. A....}29 ae Lieutenant Col, Umbekent. } sy Beare Serg't Husselbacner, Co. H.. } 3) eae Lieut. Kroyer, Co. A 13 banat Drum Major Huler.... { bigs 2 0 0 2 Adjutant Wimmel.. Corp. Grempenwitz, Vo. A.. } Sergeant Wagner, Co. C. Private Hansel, Co. C. woRcuce Private Damberman, Co. ROCCE Sut m OK Reto tm Seem OC NONOE RO Cen NORE NS AS IS WoumESSoHoniMMCot: Sm MAROC CNSH CCU MCUNECMECENNCHEMREMSE! Colonel Vilma: H Sergeant Seebach, Co. © ; Private Rhetnhart, Co. D... | 2) H ‘ P 3 Private Lurch, Uo, D. v003 The aggregate scores of the twelve best shots sum up to 246 point The highest score—that of Sergeant Klenup—is 22 points, out 01 a possible 40, The following summary shows the number of men who were on the ground and fired and those that went back *o the 600 yards range :— No. of Men No. Went Back Company, at the Butts, to 30) Fards. Field and staff.. 12 7 30. A. . . 16 6) ral | 7 8 2 6 | al 5 a] @ | —Showing that 205 fired at the short range and flity-two qualified for the long. Among the gentlemen present were Major Gen- eral Shaler, Volonel Green, staff; Lieutenant Colonel Van Vycke, Sixth regi- ment, N, G. eo tain Douglas, Eighty-fourth regi- ment, N. G., Inspector of Musketry, Second ne Second division, and a number of others. Yhe Eleventh returned to the city by the 4:40 P. M. train, showing very commendable steadiness in the ranks and quietness along the whole route, A Rifleman’s Present. Colone} George Wingate, President of the Am- ateur Rifle Club, yesterday recetved by the steamer City of Chester, as a present from Major Blenner- hassett Leech, Captain of the Irish team that ts to | some over here next September and do their pret- | tiest to beat the American team at Creedmoor, a | magnificent Winchester rifle. On the butt of the | jece, OD & silver plate, is the inscription, ‘Colonel Vingate, from Arthur B. Leech, 1874,” THE GRAND SWISS SHOOTING FESTIVAL, In commemoration of the shooting jubilee in | Switzerland yesterday was inaugurated, at the United Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, New Jersey, a Swiss shooting festival, in which large numbers of the various German and American societies parucipated. The beautiful park was decorated | in @ gay manner with flugs, and displayed in the | glass tower on the lawn were the prizes, consist- ing of elegant silver goblets, clocks, badges, &c. The public houses beyond the precincts of the ‘ounds were covered with bunting, and the vil- jage presented quite a holiday appearance. About two o’ciock the William ‘Tell Society, pre- ceeded by @ brass band, arrived and paraded about the grounds. A representative of the im- mortal hero who was supposed to have delivered Switzerland from the tyrant Gesler walked in the van with his son, who held an apple in his hand pierced with an arrow, The twain were im full costume and aroused much enthusiasm; little flower girls in Swiss costumes offered bouquets to the visitors; and what with the speech of welcome | of Mr. Krusi, the presentation of silver cups to the winners of prizes, the ‘bang, bang” of the rifles and thunderous interludes of ‘a brass cannon, the celebration was made lively indeed, All was bustle in the pavillion in whtch the sharpshooters were assembied. Amateurs and prolessionals were trying their skill in hitting the | “bull’s eyes” across the meadows. At the time | | our reporter left the fleld Mr. Rathyen, of Staten Island, and Mr. Hess, of Newark—both American bore citizens—had won the first and second prizes, sion were posted everywhere, many of them witty, all of them good natured, Here 1s one in the shooting paviliton — “Der Schutze der mit fester Mand Das <chwarze traf in (Vateriand), zuletzt anch nicht verdriessen “Zu Hause manchen Bock zu schiessen.”” ANOTHER STREET OAR ACCIDENT, About three o'clock yesterday afternoon an old tempting to cross Allen street at Delancey, was run over by car 9 of the Second avenue line. She | was struck and thrown down by the horses, and, & ig foun grade in this locality, the driver fas unable to Ktop the headway gf the car until siecle # right side one of the wheels had passed ov of the poor woman, She was senseless and ter- ribly lacerated. Several persons ran to ner as- sistance and conveyed her to the drug store of Adoiph Thoelen, on the northeast corner of De- lancey and Allen streets, where the sufferer was refused admission. In # short time, however, the police arrived with a stretcher, when she was at once taken to the Tenth ward station house, where her wounds were found to be of a very serious nature, which, alter being properly dressed by the police surgeon, she was taken, in an almost insevsible condition, to ber home, on Sheriff street, near Rivington, THE NEW POST OFFICE, Operations towards the completion of the new Post Ofice building progress as laggardly as did the rebuilding of the second Temple at Jerusalem, when each artisan on the walls labored with a tool in one hand and a weapon of warfare in the other. ‘The roof is far irom being finished; the dome may | receive its culminating glories any time between now and this day three months; the basement re- mains a chaotic mass of materials; the new ce- ment sidewalk on Broadway slowly advances ; and new patent metal {lluminating roofing for cellars, &e., 18 bel looked at and thought about. In short, an attack of semi-paralysis aMicts the stately building, the cause being, to use the saperinten- dent's words, “the satisiactory delivery of the necessary materials ROGHEFORT'S LANTERNE. | {From Galignani’s Messenger.) | A Brussels letter states that the first number of of the Petit-Journal, No. 36 Rue de l’Keuyer, It 1s que in the Belgian capital by Wittmann, of the ue des Secours, It contains Jorty-six | pages, only about one-third flied with matter, consisting excinsfvely of gross insulta to the Nmpress, the deceased Emperor and Marshal de MacMalon, of General Knox’s | | the Sentiments apropos to the sport and the ocea- | rag picker, named Wilhemina Weiss, while at- | | misston. Rochefort’s Lanterne is now on sale at the oMces | ‘The matters referred to, however, have induced us to transmit to you the following statement of Jacts, which, in our judgment, imperatively de- manded the action adopted upon our motion by the Board. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment is re- quired by law—section 112, chapter 335, Laws of 1873 (tue charter)—between the ist day of August and the 1st day of November, annually, to make a provistonal estimate of the amounts required to pay the expenses of conducting the public bus- ness Of the.city and county of New York in eac department and branch thereof jor the pext en. suing fiscal year; and to evable the Board to make vhis provisional estimate, aud at least thirty days belore the same 18 required, the heads of depart- ments are directed to send to the Board an esti- mate, in writing, of the amount of expenditures, speollying In detail the objects thereof required 1n their respective departments, including a state- ment ol euch of the salaries of their officers, clerks, employés and subordinates. ‘Tis provisional estimate, after being passed upon by the Board o1 Aldermen and finally fixed and determined by the Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment, stands as the amounts lawfully ap- propriated {or eacn department and object of the government, and the Board oi Supervisors 18 re- quined annually to raise by tax the aggregate amount so appropriated, From these provisions of law it is clear, first, that in providing as therein directed for the an- nual expenditures of the government of the city the Board of kstimate and Apportionment can only nake appropriations for expenditures to’ be paid out Of annual taxation; and, second, that part o! the expenditures so to be provided for ana paid trom taxation are the salaries o1 the officers, clerks and ordinary employés or subordinates of the several departments. Jn revising the estimate for the year 1874, pur- suant to the provisions of chapters 803 and 308 of the Laws Of 1374, a resulution was adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, pursuant to which the revised estimate as prepared by the departments were submitted to us in a printed foro), and in examining these We for the first time ascertained that there was an apparent under- standing between your department and the Comptroller; the latter paid the salaries of the omi- cers, clerks and employés of the department, not | as tue law required, wholly out 01 the appropria- , Uon made from taxation, but partly from the pro- ceeds of bonds o1 the city and partly from the appropriation from taxation, Thus the salaries of the Commissioners’ office you stated in your esti- mate to be as follows :— H, G. Stebbins, Presiden. .. ». B. Wiliiamson, Treasurer. William Irwin, secretary... isaac vans, Assistant vB, Lord, Chiet Clerk F.C. A. Hecker, clerk John Watkins, janitor. . These salaries the Comptroller paid two-thirds from the proceeds of bouds of the city issued at long dates and the remaiming one-third irom the sppropne den from taxation. In the same manner the Comptroller paid, two-thirds irom the pro- ceeds of bonds and one-third from the appropria- ton trom taxation, the salaries of the Superin- tendent of the Parks and his assistants, amount- ing to $11,828; tue salaries of the Disbursing Clerk’s ofice, consisting o1 a Disbursing Clerk at a salary of $4,000, two Clerks at a salary each of $1,800, one clerk at a salary of $1,500, another at a salary of $1,200 and two messengers each ata salary of $2 6@ per day, making a total annual cost of $12,864, and the salary of the Property Clerk, $2,500, ‘The salaries of the Lanascape Architect's office, amounting to $9,082, Were paid by the Comptroller, in the proportion o1 three-quarters irom tue pro- ceeds of bonds and ouly one-quarter trom the ap- propriation from taxa while the salaries of Supervising Arc! Ws oilice—regular em- ployés of the department—amounting to $6,439 (which 18 exclusive of tue salary of the Architect in Chiel, Mr, Vaux, who is paid by a liberal com- | also regular employés of the department, amount: topographical engineers, Whose salaries amount $50,2z8) are paid wholly trom the proceeus of ‘e considered this action on the part of the Comptroller in paying your salary and the salaries of the subordinates im the Comuinissioner’s oilice, ment, either in whote or in part, out ol the pro- ceeds 01 bouds, Lo be most objectionable in princti- ple, and since the passage of the charter wholly Without warrant in law. the estimate of your department, is paid a salary Of $3,000, altnough the charter, section 116, ex- pressiy declares that no commissioner except the resident shall receive any salary or compeusue von for bis services in aby capacity whatever. ‘The payment of the salary to Mr, Hamson is the more surprising, as all | the moneys paid to the employes oi or for sup- plies made to your department are now paid not through the Treasurer of your Board, but by the Finance Departiuent, and this fact suggests that the duties of ,your Disbursing Cierk, who receives $4,000 a year, With bis tour assistant clerks and his two messengers, cannut be very onerous, With these facts velore us we, in revising, along with your department, determined that trom the ap- propriation made from taxation for the mainte- hance apd government Ol the parks, the salaries as provided in the charter, of the oficers, clerks and subordinates of the department, shoula be wholly paid. We excepted the wages of iuremen and labore! In reference to other exceptions there 18 BO ambiguity. Works of construction in the Park are, we regret to say, proceeded with by day’s labor—a mode of employment we have Department of Parks; and im connection with the execution of these works, when authorized by law, laborers have be employed, end when there are laborers at work there must bo foremen fo supervise the work and see to tts due execution, The wages eet laborer and fore- man are, of course, payal rom the funds au- thorized to be expended ‘in the dona etfod ui tbe works, hls enor, with the material re- quired atid used, ing thus provided for, we properly excepted the same trom the appropria- tion made tor salaries out of taxation, It was an is unnecessary for us to referto the corps o en ead &c., employed tn surveying and laying out the upper part of the city. For the temporary employment 0! these parties—they form no part of the ordinary employés of the department—provis- ion has been specially made by chapter 604 of the Laws of 1874, and our duty in reference to sach artes was fully performed when the Board of Estimate and Apportionment adopted and passed the resolution which you will find set forth in its minutes, under date of June 24 last, directing the said statute the amount of $60,000, If these bonds have not been issued and the proceeds applied as the iaw directs the Comptroller is alone to blame, With the exceptions above stated it was our in- tention—and we consider that this intention ts clearly expressed in the resolution of the Board of Estimate and Apporttonment—that the salaries of your department should be paid wholly from tas: ation, and we deem it our duty to see that tits resolution is duly observed b: our department, Respectiully, SAMUEL P H. VANCE, president of the Board of Alderméa, JOHN WHEELER, President of the Department of Taxes and Assess- ments. A Legal Reply on a Local Sabject—The Powers of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Mr, George P, Andrews, Assistant Counsel to the Corporation, completed yesterday an elaborate | opinion on the powers of the Board of Betimate and Apportionment tn answer to a communication Jrom Colone! Stebbins, President of the Park Com- The main points of the opinion are as follows : Hon. HENRY G. STEBRINS, President of the Depart- | ment of Public Parks :— | sim—Your letter of the 6th inst. to the Counsel | to the Corporation was duly received. You state | that ata meeting of the Board of Estimate and | Apportionment, held June 29, 1874, the estimates | tor the maintenance of parks and places, which | had been fixed on the 13th of Septemver last tor | the year, were considered and reduved, and the mission) and the salaries of the Engineer's ofices, | ing to $13,320 (exclusive of the corps of civil and | and the active ordinary employés of the depart- | Mr. Williamson, one of your Board, yon state in | Wie | the other members of the Board, the estimate of | never heard the Comptroller object to in the | 4 | Russian and the other a Dane. Comptroller to issue Of the bonds authorized by | 5 | appropriations finally made tn the following terms, Viz. -— ‘The Department of Public Parks; matntenance ‘and government of parks and places, Including the sum of for the keeping, ‘exhibition and preservation of the cofiections in the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and including the entire salartes of the President, clerks, officers employes other than foremen of labor- Observatory, Museum and Gallery of” Art: Harlem River bridges, maintensace of + 15000 | Independence Day, celebration of. + 10,000 Sea wall, Battery, ‘repair of... , 7008 | Supplics of gas, Department of 872 | and 1873, F fog - 58,000 | Maintenance and riment He | streets, is and ues, etc., Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards. +_ 40,006 Total.. | You state that as President of the Department | Of Parks you thereupon requested an explanation | Of the directions contained im such appropriation from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but that up to the date of your letter to the Counsel of the Corporation you nad received no reply thereto: that the operations of your depart- ment will not wait, but that neiore proceeding to reduce expenses in tre department by discharging its empioyés and the discontinuance of all the | works of construction, the Commissioners, govern- | ing your department, have tustructed you to call | the Bttention of the Counsel of the Corporation to the facts of the case and procure his optpion whether the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment has a legal right to impose upon the Vepartmentof Pubic Parks the restrictions contained in the appropnation, and particularly that coutained tn the 1ollowing words :—“And including the entire salaries of the President, clerks, oMcers and empioyés other than joremen of laborers.” I have deferred answering your letter until now, hoping that the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment, in compliance with your request, would make some expianation in reference to ‘the ap- propriation for your department which would ob- viate the necessity of a reply to your letter to the Counsel to the Corporation. I understand that you are still without @ response to. your several communications to the. Board of Estimate and Apportionment, that the officers and employes of your department have not been paid jor the month of June last, and tuac you await the opinion of the Counsel to the Corpora- tion before deciding whether to discontinue for tne rest of the year all work of construction in the | different parks. ‘The charter of 1873, in the sec- on retating to the law department. coutains tre following provisions ;—‘Ibat no oMcer or depart- ment, except as herein otherwise provided, suall have or employ any atcorney or counsel; but it shall be the duty of the law department to 1urnish to every department or officer such advice and legal « assistance as counsel or attorney tm or out of court a8 may be required by such oMicer or depart- ment.” ‘The counsel then states that as be 18 coun- sel to both departments concerned it would be more agreeable to the law department and to the oflicials interested that the matter should be de- cided by the courts rather than by the Counsel to the Corporation. But as it 1s impossibie for this to be done he answered the letter without turther delay. The counsel then reviewed the permanent | powers of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment, which are defined by chapter 573, Laws of 1373, and chapters 335 and 779 of the Laws of 1873, It will be seen by an eXamination of the various statutes conierring powers aad developing duties upon the Board of Estimate and Apportionment that in regard toa large portion of the amount to be included in the estimate the Board has no dis- cretion, while with regard to the balance its powers are almost unlimited. Extensive, however, a8 are the powers of the Board in determining the amounts to be annuatly vatsed by taxation, it is, in his opinion, pertectly clear that tts powers and duties in making the an- nual estimate relate to but one subject, and that 1s the determination (except im the cases above inenuoned, when the Board has no diseretion) of | how much money raised by taxation shail be an- nually expended for the public business o1 the city. Neither with the question how much money shall be raised by the issne of bonds authurized by special acts of the Legislature, nor with the ques- tion how much money shall be expended, has the Board, in his opinion, any concern whatever. It would seem by its action with regard to the Dock Department that this view of the matter was taken by the Board itsela The Board of Kstimate and Apportionment can determine how much money shall be raised for the use of the Department oi Parks by taxation, and for what purpose that money shall be expended; | Dut when it undertook, im effect, to say that no salartes of officers, clerks or employés should be paid out of any iund but the $495,000 appropriated ; by them, he was constrained to advise that it ex- ceeded its lawful powers, and that its action in this respect ts null and void. The counsel, how- ever, credited the Board of Hstimate and Appor- trionment with the praiseworthy motive of iessen- Ang city expenditures. OUR HAPPY MAYOR. ae Mayor Havemeyer as He Appeared Yes terday—He Confesses His Great Love for Disbecker. His Honor, Mayor Havemeyer, ts certainly— whatever his faulls may be—one of the best na- | tured men of the day. He is always in a good humor, The morning papers may have con- tained terrific and crushing leaders, rapping nim over the knuckles, aud yet he appears ip the onter office, which is the happy hunting ground of the reporters attached to the City Hal! and adjoins his | private sanctuary, in the jolliest frame of mind, | chats Jocularly with the representatives of the | Dress, and seems to enjuy all the censure which is | burled upon his head every day, | The important conversation which took place terday with reference to political matters was follows :— | , sewinl you send your answer to the Governor to» day? “No,” replied the Mayor, and he shook his head, “NOT UNTU. TO-ORROW or day after to-morrow.” And the Mayor reiter- ated his statement, already given in these coimmns, | that he would leave it to the Governor's discretion | to give bis answer to the press or not as he | chooses. | “What do you think the Governor will do, Mr. | Mayor?” “Well, I think he will read ‘The Mayor laughed, ; it in the first place.” | “I think there is no doubt on that point.” “No; and as to his action, | suppose he will do what he thinks proper.” | . “Do you think the Governor, a(ter weighing your | answer, can remove you?” “Well, I don’t do things to be removed so | easily,’? was the Mayor's light reply. |p iMe question of his recent appointments being then broached, the Mayor said:—“I never appoint a@ man from friendship, never. I stmply make ap- pointments to please mysell.. I never expect any | gratitude irom anybody. 1am here to do my duty vo the people, and when Lam satisfied that I have done it I don’t care | HOW MUCH I AM ABUSED FOR IT”? | “The people seem rather ungrateful in this in- | stance?” | _ “Yes, they always are.” (A cloud spreading over | his genial and luminous countenance.) ‘I don't expect anything from any man, but | only say that there is one man who has deceived me grossly, | grossly, and that is Disbecker. And he is a man | who 18 out of the pale oi— ' The Mayor got no iurtner. Oe looked for | the fatling word up to the bine vault of heaven, at the chandelier, at the reporter, and finding out in | neither of these places, he left the sentence un- | completed, | “Well, you have the power to remove him?’? Mayor Havemeyer gave tne reporter a tunny and significant glance. “An, if he gives me cause. | Just wait till he gives me cause aud he'll move very fast.’ | And with this the Mayor nodded, and, his attene | tion being engaged by another reporter who solic. | ited an interview, he retired with him into bis | private room. t OITY HALL BREVITIES, | Two marriages were yesterday solemnized in the | Mayor's office, one of the happy lusbands being a It was reported ; that the Mayor, who has had great experience in | these ceremonies, tied the marriage-kuot so tight | thatit will be very dilticuit for any ene to unloose 1 | "There was a rumor yesterday that President | Wheeler, of the Tax Department, whom the Mayor loves with all the mensity of tis soul, had been | kindly Invited by him to resign. The report proved | to be groundless, both the Mayor and Mr, Wheeler | contradicting the statement most empnatically, Among the visitors of the Mayor yesterday were | ex-Police Commuisstoner Gardner, who looked rather out of sorts, aud as though the remem- brance of the happy days of yore still haunted Dim, and Captain Willams, who remained with the Mayor a short time-—it 18 supposed for the pur- pose of consuiting him about the orders against clubbing issued by Commissioner Disvecker, Cap- tain Williams is reported to have said that the citizens of New York ought to be clubbed much | — frequently than tney ever have been in the past. AN OPEN LETTER, | To THE EDITOR OP tHE HERALD:— What think you of a joint stock organisation for @ co-operative restaurant in which any persom may, at cheap but not eleemosynary prices, obtalm the privilege of lunch, lavatory, dense Manwacturing locality ov be avoided by diferent nours of recess, Had our well meaning “crusading” ladies, of both sexes, expended their zeal, time and moans tn such en~ verprises they might have accomplished more enduring and every way more satisfactory results than accompanied their impracticable attempts to force things. AN engineer, who desires to divert the course of a river dves not depend wholly on prayer or exhortation, bat geval proceeds to make bis short cut; then a¢ the proper moment, all being ready, @ stroke of the pick and lol the stream, rushes headiong into the new ot ever widening and deepeniog. In this age one cannot dictate what another shail or shail not swallow, either physical or speculative, but one can provide someting better. G. HB. CINGINNATI, July 19, isthe